As a river ages, it begins to cut wild curves,
some of which will become oxbows: small arches of water that will isolate
some of the life forms...
We see this phenomenon on our
windows during a rain, as streams of water zigzag along the surface of the
glass. Some areas will die out as evaporating drops of water, while others feed
one of the many streams. That vertical river is just a faster version of a
horizontalish river. Since any flow of matter or energy can be contolled
into a series of intentional logical events, such as electrons in a
computer flowing to an electrical ground; one may view the droplets of rain as
an unintentional computer, calculating how to get down the window
in the easiest fashion.
This website
is dedicated to the proposal that the metaphorical relationships drawn
between any two disciplines are, in fact, universal, being
isomorphic mathematical derivations of the Unified Field Theory. Further, that this symmetric
aspect of
metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally, thus may be harnessed to mathematically
predict missing knowledge
and invention in all
other disciplines: an interdisciplinary Rosetta stone of
universal scope.
"The
metaphor reminds us that the universe is full of cousins." -
J.D. Casnig
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use only. Work should be cited as:
Casnig, John D. 1997-2009. A
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