It is one of those those trusim - minds love order - and from the depth of our grammary soul seek to impose it upon nature. Give us order, and we find truth. the world is then reduced to patterns, and structures formula and symtery predictions and anomalies.
Find a pattern and we think one has found the truth.
And yet there is of course pattering an patterning. Nothing is as simple as there being one pattern. On the contrary there are many different possible stratediges for our patterning.
firstly and most powerfully there are the patterns of diagrams. To pattern becomes then a matter of at once abstracting a sequence truth from rich world of possible patterns and then translating opposing or interlinked truths into a graphic net. The truth is out their to be mapped. A map or diagram once drawn then allows you to navigate where you are in the world. the map is then a place for prediction. Meaning exists then at an odd juncture point between the graphic mind, the analyytical and our desire to predict. So that our ability to locate ourselves in space and time becomes tranliterated into an ability to make some kind of predictions.
Alternatively meaning might well be translated into formula each with their own stripped down predictive power. meaning then is seen in the symetry but also the simplicity of such formula, and and their ease to be translated into the world. Classically then the complexity of the world is taken over and transformed into the symeteries of maths , and the orders it naturally imposes unto the world. So that is a sense the symmetry is imposed from a hidden higher symetery- the laws of maths. and yet the imposition is in a sense invisible and hand off. The point of a formula is that although it is part of another world, that of maths, it is also encapsulated in this single line- in the means to make prediction. the order then is not invisible and forced - so much as the ordering is invisible and the symmetry established in natural. So that the mathematical relation a good formula produces greats a symetry a proposition in the world. Too much of one thing leads to something else, to little elsewhere. Vibrant quantitative symetries emerge then into the world - laws of amount, and issues of consequence. The Future or what will happen is distilled into things that are already there. The symetry then not only links distinct elements (and creates open causal connections between them), but also allow one once again a sense where the future is back written into the present. What is here now leads to--- and what is here comes form--- time and hidden symetry link and create.
more than that the symetries of the formula are of course testable in this relationship. they have to cohere with prediction or else the entire formula founders. It works - is a formula then as it can predict.
Symetery greats meaning as first a special and then a general theory. Its given in the formula that clutches at a truth, and then the formulas are ordered into patterns, and explained from underlying geology or in a geography or through a patter. Formulas then open out into pictorial representations (as well as being at other times deduced from such image). The symetry defines the in a single axis not merely the future, but also the sense that we understand and share the understanding of that future. Meaning as symetery is necessarily social in the seeing. In addition a good symetry imposes not merely order, but simplifies that order as well. Symteries are fundamentally simple properties - and bring with then the assumption that the simpler they are the better. compress the complex shifting sands of reality into a single simple series of formulas and collect the formulas in a symetry- and we assume meaning is there.
But of course the mere act of telling a stories also creates its own symetries - in three fold structure: Once for meaning, once to loose the meaning in the joy of repeating, and then the third time for everyone to join in. Repeat three times and then the audience is already with you. The symetry of repeating or not quite repeating or repeating right. World of symeteries open out into worlds of repeating, where then mere act of double and then trebling creates not merely the ability to predict but also to share in that prediction. In repeating - that very act of repeating creates symetries, and with it a new way to share and locate oneself in a story.
Symemtires are then everywhere we want to both predict the future and use somethign here and now in that prediction business - but also demand that prediction is shared (and so has general meaning- and so has value- to in sharing reality of sorts always lurks). Symetry is therefore in a sense always rather dangerous for meaning. We look for order and once we have created it, we tend to want ti in there come what may- we leave it in, we assume it, and can share it. it will then immediately form its own world- it becomes its own truth in the sharing, and becomes hen very hard to gainsay or destroy, even if it openson a world of error
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