"We should try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue"
-- Rilke - Letters To A Young Poet
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We have emphasized three perspectives, interrelated world views, for enjoying patterns in nature --the spiritual, the aesthetic, and the analytical. Within all of these views, great emphasis has been placed on the idea that all patterns in nature are connected in some way.
With this basis, we now discuss common patterns. Since there are interrelationships between various patterns in nature, these common patterns are not mutually exclusive. For example, emergent patterns are also scale free and self similar (fractal).
We first look at nature's patterns in space and in time. We start by showing an example of patterns that result directly from one or more physical forces. In particular we look at bubbles and bee honeycombs. Next, we examine spatial and temporal trends that follow scaling laws. Then, on to the ubiquitous fractal, emergent, and Fibonnaci spatial patterns. We then explore temporal cyclical patterns and synchronous patterns.
We go on to explore patterns in intelligence and behavior. This topic is rarely covered in books on patterns in nature even though intelligence and behavior (and its corollary - language and communications) are certainly important patterns that have developed in most living creatures. We start by covering the broad topic of sociobiology -- then on to intelligence and instinct and memes,