Monday, March 12, 2007
We are very receptive to 'Repetition of patterns', be it visual, audio or even behavioral. Patterns create a sense of rhythm and flow. Most songs have a set beat and repeating main stanza. Illusions like Stereograms and many others are based on some pattern appearing repeatedly.
At the same time, the cyclic nature of events tends to be monotonous; after a while.. boring. Cyclic nature has an inherent determinism about occurrence of events. A finite time period after which you know that everything would be all the same.
The question probably goes to the endless debate of whether time and space and dimensions are cyclic or linear. Is the world deterministic or chaotic. While some prefer 'knowing' the future before hand.. I prefer uncertainty. I couldn't find a better explanation to why I kinda liked the second picture more.
