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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 recursive. 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." | ||
— Christopher Alexander (August 2003), The Phenomenon Of Life, p.118, ISBN 0195106393 | ||
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 wiki. My ideas of WikiIndex:Versioning also fits in with these ideas, as well as Lion Kimbro's Federated Wiki idea... MarkDilley