ozoneocean wrote:
Number 3: It's not found in nature very often, only in very specific instances, like the Fibonacci sequence- they're useful proportions for creating certain types of spiral pattern so that angles and lines don't intersect or overlap, that's all. Everything else is myth.
Agree with everything but 3 does make me go hmmm sometimes… Maybe we don't see it very often but often enough to make us smile when we see disparate things like galaxies, hurricanes , shells, flower petals, etc all forming the same pattern with the Fibonacci sequence. Yes, maybe just pattern recognition (and maybe just the most efficient way a spiral can form in nature, so it does just that…), but we humans do get that warm, fuzzy, mystical feeling when sensing these sorts of things (deja vu feelings and serendipity coincidence do the same thing…).
We want to apply meaning and intelligence to pattern making because, well… all sorts of theories as to why that is… I say enjoy it, marvel at it, but always tote around a bit ol' bag of skepticism :D