in Memoriam Tao: Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado in Memoriam (26.06.1933 - 20.01.2014)
Gustav Mahler, "Adagietto", Symphony No 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra

meta-Tao clusters

Visualization of the Internet data at the AS level. A plot of all nodes, ordered by their k-shell indices. The legend to the left denotes degree, and the legend to the right denotes k-shell index.
from: Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin, Scott Kirkpatrick, Yuval Shavitt and Eran Shir, "A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition", Proc. of the IEEE

The next metapattern discussed by Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom are clusters, static or dynamic aggregations of mental or physical elements:

Background

Clusters refer to the accumulation or movement of objects or ideas to positions of proximity to one another. Such clustering may involve one or more center attractors. Clustering seems to involve some sort of attraction that brings objects or ideas together.

Jos Leys, Kaleido 4D

Examples

• In science: plant growth in particular location, clusters of stars, lichen growth on a particular part of a rock, mold and bacterial growth, bird flocks, colonial organisms, etc.

• In architecture and design: building plans that provide space for people to gather; office spaces or rooms in a home that come together around a common space; automobile controls and feedback dials on dashboards; placement of plants and objects in landscape design; etc.

• In art: movement apart and together in drama and dance; pictorial representations of alternating space and clusters; etc.

• In social sciences: town and city development; tribal, community, and nation development; clustering of ideas within a conceptual space; formations of cities and town; family structures; cliques; gangs; etc.

• In other senses: cultural and religious events and gatherings; parties; groupings of people in a variety of settings and contexts; etc.

Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus II, 2012

M92 globular cluster

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vertical Tao

Richard Silver, Vertical Churches, Franciszkanska Church, Krakow

three complex Taos: Ecosystem

Of the three most complex systems known - consciousness, earth ecosystem and the universe - the study and modelling of the earth global ecosystem has a key relevance since several years, though widely underestimated and ignored, for prediction of destructive and irreversible environmental changes due to human influence.
The 2013 report on climate changes of the IPCC  Working Group I describes the current situation and gives some future estimates:

Gary Larson

arriving somewhere but not in Tao

Never stop the car on a drive in the dark

Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes

Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing

Through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Could you imagine the final sound as a gun

Or the smashing windscreen of a car?

Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out

Was a song?

Arriving somewhere but not here

[Chorus:]

All my designs, simplified

And all of my plans, compromised

And all of my dreams, sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?

Drinking down the poison the way you were taught

Ever thought from here on in your life begins

And all you knew was wrong?

Arriving somewhere but not here

All my designs, simplified

And all of my plans, compromised

And all of my dreams...

Did you see the redness block your part?

Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?

Did you feel the end before the suns of mothers

Tearing you apart?

meta-Tao cycles

Krebs cycle: citric acid

The next metapattern discussed by Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom are cycles, structures repetion in space and time:

Background

Cycles are repetitions in space or time, such as, circulations, waves, repetitive routines, etc. Interactions of cycles and arrows create spirals or helices.

Examples

• In science: Kreb’s cycle, Earth’s rotation and revolution, lunar phases, animal movement, biological rhythms, breathing, water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, seasons, tides, bird songs, light, sound, cybernetic feedback loops, system operational closure etc.

• In architecture and design: heating & cooling systems, movement patterns in buildings, etc.

• In art: perceptual “movement,” musical compositions, choreography, etc.

• In social sciences: repetitive actions, routines, rituals, helical patterns of themes running through discourse and other psychosocial situations, etc.

• In other senses: laps in a race, wheel of karma, etc.

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