The Game: Introduction: After a long term love affair with modular structures in art, design and nature which came to include an exploration of Vedic mathematics, Hindu mandalas, Islamic pattern, various ancient and modern cosmologies and our physiological and cognitive responses to pattern, I was driven to further explore the relationships between the elements of number, the structures thus described and/or generated and our evolving multidimensional models of reality [which include the aesthetic and ethical dimensions]. It has become increasingly evident that It [all] reveals itself as a game with a set of essentially simple rules. Whether or not the set of rules with their power to generate the richness and diversity that we experience is real, is actually under pinning the phenomenological world or is created by us to make sense of It All is of course the big question that enthrals so many of us. We all seek insight, we are all potential Seers - see-ers, visionaries. There are some key principles which together inform this work, most of which are generally accepted in all walks of life [perhaps a more meaningful phrase in the context of The Game of Life].1. Key Principles: 1.1 We order in order to understand. 1.2 Metaphor and analogy are key aids to insight. 1.3 From simple rules emerge complex consequences. 1.4 Constraint encourages creativity. 1.5 A game without rules is short lived. 1.6 Autonomy is illusory - everything is interdependent [....in a continuum of space, time and matter formed in and by hierarchies of varied complexity]. 1.7 Things are determined by relationships. 1.8 Relationships depend on communication. 1.9 We live on the Edge of Chaos. 2004 Copyright - Keith Albarn. All Rights reserved. Reproduction of material from this website without prior permission is not allowed |