How very poetic. Now let's be cold, mechanical and logical for a second and try to extract a falsification condition here.
On one side, we have the thesis that human brains are disposed to see particular patterns in the world. This is something that Cognitive Neuroscience investigates in considerable detail. We are gradually mapping out the structure of the brain, but are doing so through a process of experimentation and peer review, and with the aid of technology that we've developed to let us look in more detail at what is going on at a variety of different scales.
On the other we have... what? The inductive generalisation from the fact that we see the same numbers and fractal sequences in several different places to the suggestion that these things are just transcendental guiding laws of reality? What would it take to prove that statement wrong? I can present all sorts of things that happen that have nothing to do with phi, fractals, symmetries or the number 23; will this invalidate your assertion?
There is a place for mystery, for the appreciation of aesthetics and patterns and for theology. But metaphysics must hold itself to higher standards than "moving you to tears of joy".
End Game == Fascism.
The End-game of capitalism is Fascism anyway. By reducing political involvement to voting as a form of consumer confidence, people become used to the idea that Government is something that is provided for you, rather than something you have to actively participate in and contribute to. Whether the existing public sector evolves to adapt, or whether it gets surpassed by the private sector providing the infrastructure requirements, in the end, taxation becomes payment for services, the public sector adopts corporate hierarchy structures that retain people with "success-first" mentalities, and ideology becomes driven by factors that the markets take to be essential values.
That's not an argument against dropping IP laws. But what's the driving reason? If you're worried that it's a block to Free Capitalism, then you're right to be worried, but wrong to think IP has anything to do with it.
The Tory party aren't the lesser of two evils; they're in the top three or four of about 20 evils (EDL and BNP being obvious winners in that list). Why not vote Green, UKIP or Independent? Or, alternatively, the SNP/Plaid Cymru?
The only wasted votes are those that go to parties that don't need them.
'The apparent convergence towards a unique network shape in the temporal limit suggests the existence of dominant, universal mechanisms governing the evolution of these structures.'"
And the suggestion is intelligent design has guided subway design, but their list could include other items like
... subways are underground. subways have stations. subways have purpose built trains. subways have ticket, coin, or other payment systems.
Again, "The Existence of Dominant, Universal Mechanisms Governing" is just the way philosophically naive academics say "There are relevant matters of fact concerning". What's with this rush to accuse people of practicing theology?
I'm starting to worry about the apparent inability of people to tell the difference between positing factivity and being religious. Either it's an expressive problem on the part of researchers or a lack of interpretive charity on the part of readers, but either way, it doesn't bode well for public science.
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