By observing through the microscope a biological structure at the different scale levels, it is possible to live an astonishing experience which leads the explorer to travel across hierarchically structured geometrical worlds where spaces and paths are established by forms of unexpected strictness and symmetrical constructions conceal nested architectures which create self-similar universes evoking Koch's fractals or three-dimensional versions of Mandelbrot sets. The finding ??? surprising and consolatory at the same time ??? that living matter can somehow exhibit symmetries and levels of order one generally (and only) associates to inorganic crystals, de facto undermines the foundations of some dichotomous categories on which both Science and Philosophy are based, consequently making fluid the boundaries between organic and inorganic, artificial and natural and ??? at the end ??? between life and death. The Life ??? at the macro- and micro-scopic eye ??? is available. It is geometrical disposition, conformal symmetry, solution and result. But Life, where that eye (and its extents) is slotted, is meta-order, at most World as energy and kinematic laps, anyway para-logical priority, logical noise, paradox of the tangible and of the material. So, Science and Philosophy become comment and/or protest of the human mind in front of a ???There Is???, and in this blame game between meta-bio-logical prius and historical preemption, any result of the human mind is also a result of the Life, of physical and chemical auto-organization which allows the Life itself. Not only methodological explosion of dichotomies as Natural/Artificial, Organic/Inorganic ??? the practice or the break of the dichotomy is however an existential demand of the Logos ??? rather secret horizon required by human livings, mass-produced mirrors of self-references and semantic codes. Symmetries and violations of symmetries in piles of Selfies to post on social networks of Science and Philosophy, on hold of feedback loops. So, Symmetry is not necessarily the background or the foreseeing, and the Asymmetry is not necessarily infraction and fancy.

Selfies. Symmetry Encoding Life Fakes Insight Encoding Science / Amodio, Paolo. - In: S&F SCIENZAEFILOSOFIA.IT.. - ISSN 2036-2927. - 12:(2014), pp. 8-12.

Selfies. Symmetry Encoding Life Fakes Insight Encoding Science

AMODIO, PAOLO
2014

Abstract

By observing through the microscope a biological structure at the different scale levels, it is possible to live an astonishing experience which leads the explorer to travel across hierarchically structured geometrical worlds where spaces and paths are established by forms of unexpected strictness and symmetrical constructions conceal nested architectures which create self-similar universes evoking Koch's fractals or three-dimensional versions of Mandelbrot sets. The finding ??? surprising and consolatory at the same time ??? that living matter can somehow exhibit symmetries and levels of order one generally (and only) associates to inorganic crystals, de facto undermines the foundations of some dichotomous categories on which both Science and Philosophy are based, consequently making fluid the boundaries between organic and inorganic, artificial and natural and ??? at the end ??? between life and death. The Life ??? at the macro- and micro-scopic eye ??? is available. It is geometrical disposition, conformal symmetry, solution and result. But Life, where that eye (and its extents) is slotted, is meta-order, at most World as energy and kinematic laps, anyway para-logical priority, logical noise, paradox of the tangible and of the material. So, Science and Philosophy become comment and/or protest of the human mind in front of a ???There Is???, and in this blame game between meta-bio-logical prius and historical preemption, any result of the human mind is also a result of the Life, of physical and chemical auto-organization which allows the Life itself. Not only methodological explosion of dichotomies as Natural/Artificial, Organic/Inorganic ??? the practice or the break of the dichotomy is however an existential demand of the Logos ??? rather secret horizon required by human livings, mass-produced mirrors of self-references and semantic codes. Symmetries and violations of symmetries in piles of Selfies to post on social networks of Science and Philosophy, on hold of feedback loops. So, Symmetry is not necessarily the background or the foreseeing, and the Asymmetry is not necessarily infraction and fancy.
2014
Selfies. Symmetry Encoding Life Fakes Insight Encoding Science / Amodio, Paolo. - In: S&F SCIENZAEFILOSOFIA.IT.. - ISSN 2036-2927. - 12:(2014), pp. 8-12.
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