WikiIndex:RecursiveNatureOfWiki

: Recursive nature of wiki.

Holy Frack!

"As soon as we try to describe, precisely, why this particular thing is a center, we find that we have to invoke some kind of description in terms of other centers. In mathematics, such a concept is called . Grasping this idea, and grasping the fact that this bit of understanding is a positive step forward, and not problematic, is the key to understanding wholeness.  The apparent circularity here is - I believe - the crux of the problem of wholeness.  The reason that deep wholeness (or life) is so mysterious, is that centers are built from centers, wholeness is built from wholeness."

From Wiki Fractality. Thanks Christophe! I bought that book a few months ago, in preparation for graduate school?.

From Wiki:ChristopherAlexander... forgot where. This better explains some of my ideas about . My ideas of WikiIndex:Versioning also fits in with these ideas, as well as Lion Kimbro's Federated Wiki idea... MarkDilley