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Iain McGilchrist

“forms that are found in Nature are the result of motion, and embodied movement, not stasis; similarly, movements found in Nature enact forms, not structures. The great biologist and mathematician D’Arcy Thompson saw form as inseparable from the energy involved in the processes which generate it.16 We have already seen that many flows in Nature are vortices, and that self-organising and self-promulgating patterns of complexity and beauty – fractals, spirals, lǐ-formations – are everywhere in the world, both organic and inorganic. The spiral is an expression of dynamism (DNA is the ‘betweenness”

Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
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