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I'm not so sure that science matters. It seems to me that science's search for order and the chaos caused by technology are manifestations the same thing. It's a very clever ape's realizing that sticks are weapons. It's part of an ape's eight point emotional compass.
Suzuki's face on his twitter page has about one sixteenth of a rotation off the vertical. His face understands a sixteen point emotional compass.
There is a very pretty mathematics behind all of this. For each of the sixteen points there is a colored emotional illusion built around two concentric circles whose diameter has a ratio of 1 to the cube root of pi, as well as low amplitude sine curves, and numbered paired sets of complementary colors which are also complementary in tone.
The ninth colored illusion is the first uniquely human one and the first to evolve after that horrid eighth one which leads to science, technology, trophies, homelessness, obesity, eating disorders, the whole modern nightmare. Here is a rough sketch of the ninth illusion:
This pattern starts at the 12:00 position and slowly moves from patch to patch counterclockwise until it reaches the 12:30 position. The colored pairs are numbered from 73 to 104. The numbers seem related to how many years a species lives. Carried through to the sixteenth illusion, the numbers finally reach 1272. There seem to be few if any cues about what characteristics a seventeenth illusion would have.
There are rules to how the viewer moves from patch to patch. One can move to an adjacent patch, or one can move from one patch to one where the two only share one point in common. The same point is never crossed twice.
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