I originally wrote down these thoughts on March 6, 2024, a short while after having read Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World for the first time.

Everything that exists must work according to the rules of the fundamental forces that it is built on top of. This consequentially means that patterns and processes that can be observed in the more fundamental layers of existence can also be found in the ones further above and therefore vice versa. In effect, every discovery in any large field of science can reveal answers about the other ones.

One of the ways to reveal these fundamental rules, processes and connections lies in language, whatever form it may take. Through words, symbols and their meanings that represent our human understanding of the world around us it can reveal new discoveries by fostering communication between the various fields and disciplines, just as individual humans exchange ideas via language between each other. This is why inter-disciplinary work is so important to foster the discovery of new scientific findings.

One of the biggest and most fundamental rule may have to do with everything either being or not being, 0 or 1, thesis and antithesis, and then expanding and branching out, becoming and creating something new, synthesis. This process can be seen as a pattern of triangular-like funnels in the tree of knowledge of all the sciences. So the entire process of existence over time is one of non-binarization, as can be observed in the multiplication of cells as well as all the complexities of computer science being fundamentally based on nothing but ones and zeroes. And whatever the truly tiniest part that the universe is made of, smaller than atoms, electrons, higgs-bosons or whatever else, it might just be there’ll always be something even smaller, until there’s nothing but something. If everything was just one thing, e.g. 0, then there’d be nothing at all, as everything would be the same. And if everything is the same then there is actually just one thing. Nothing.

One world, yet as many images of the world as there are things in it. Every person has a different one.

Patterns, forms and words that are sort of everywhere:

Circles and spheres, triangles, pyramids, funnels, waves, spiraling outward/forward, building new connections, branching like trees, Fibonaci numbers, “spread”, “grow”.