{The Mandelbrot Set}[30th December 1987]

[Redbook4:271-274][19871230:0017]{The Mandelbrot Set}[30th December 1987]

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It serves me right that three days after I write (of Circles Analysis): 'In a word, what is it? Well, in a few words, it is What makes the World go round; and its geometry is the necessary condition for continuing change.'* – the New Scientist should carry an article** on fractals – the first, so far as I can recall, that I had heard of them – followed by an article in this week's Economist.***

I am fascinated by the 'black snowman' shape of the Mandelbrot set [sic]. Surely, if it is (or may be) the most complex object in the Universe, it is the Universe (or a representation thereof)? Or do I misunderstand 'complex'?**** The 'black snowman' seems to show with reasonable similarity the vertical polarity of the Circle structure,# the horizontal symmetry, the four equal diagonals, and the 'infinitely' multiplying series of smaller points between these (cf. Rachel#* etc.: and Humans?#**). The fact that the 'black snowman' keeps recurring irrespective of scale is highly suggestive of Circle gearing etc.: as is the continuing recurrence of the spiral form.

*[[Redbook4:230][19871214:2355b]{In a word}[14th December 1987]]

**N[ew] S[cientist] 19871217 (p44).

***[The] Econ[omist] 19871226 (p99ff)

****[or 'in']

#but I am not absolutely certain which way up it is – are there obvious turning points? Are these the 'cheeks' of the 'heart' shape?

#*(per Empress of Cambridge)

#**[presumably in the sense Humans generally, i.e. Individuals, since it is not suggested in [2] that Rachel and others of her kind are not Human.]

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