TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:04 am
Whether the Golden Rule stems from, or has been encoded in geometry lands us into a Philosophy-of-mathematics dispute. Is mathematics invented or discovered? I lean towards the "invented" school of thought and so all of the similarities you discover in our theories are simply reflections of our own minds. You can find these marks all across the human body of knowledge.
The no-harm principle (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere ) is scale-invariant (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance ). It applies at the individual scale or at the social/collective scale.
As you rightly point out it all starts with values. From the school of Protagoras and perspectivism - man is the measure of all things. And the no-harm principle is our highest value. First we wish no harm upon ourselves, and by reciprocity and scale-invariance - no harm upon the collective.
The nature of self-fulfilling prophecies is trivially demonstrated by Ergodic theory (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_theory ) certain social norms (values) are simply not sustainable and lead to systemic collapse through eradication of diversity.
This can be easily observed when one combines Game theory and Ergodic theory. There are only so many strategies that result in systemic equilibrium long-term. Neither altruism nor egoism wins in the end.
You can play the game here: The Evolution of Trust:
https://ncase.me/trust/
Do observe though: symmetry is an aesthetic concern more than a naturalistic one.
Actually symmetry is a natural phenomena as well considering we can observe certain forms reflected in nature:
1) Linear branching in trees, to branches to leaves as well as cracks in rock, wood and the branching of nerves, veins, etc. in organisms. This can be observed further in lightning, etc.
2) The golden ratio in sea shells, plants, etc.
3) Triangulation in wave functions: earth (mountain ranges, hills, etc.), wind (observed in the movements of earth and water), water (waves, crests), fire (bon fire, candle, etc.)
4) Circularity in seasons, celestial cycles, sun, moon, stars, migratory and hunting patterns, reproductive cycles etc.
5) Point space in seeds as origins, etc while all stars being observed as point space and origin of light.
This is a short list, and poorly worded due to time constraints, but geometry is evident in all these things.
Considering the movement of all these forms all these natural elements are composed of an infinite variety of geometric shapes.
The question of measurement in turn stems from directed movement as limits in themselves with these limits embodied universally in the point, line and circle reminiscent of the "Monad", "Bindhu" (Indian), Nazar (Arabic/Turkish), The sun / Ra (Egyptian hieroglyphs), The sun / a day (Chinese oracle script, the modern character being 日), etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circled_dot