Creative Life

“The creative life is a constant striving against one’s inherent and often insurmountable limitations. “

– Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

 

Apophenia

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in otherwise random or meaningless data. But if patterns or connections are seen in such data, then it is not truly random or meaningless, is it? Do you see patterns in white noise?

Pareidolia

Pareidolia – a type of apophenia involving the perception of images or sounds in random stimuli, a phenomenon first described in the writings of Da Vinci.

‘Now and then it is claimed that vacant space is “friendly” (anthropomorphizing an inherently murky idea) but it is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.’ —Ed Tufte