• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Oh hell yeah man. This would be a perfect moment to do some drugs if you’ve got some around. Then look at MC Escher’s art. And crystal structure. And those muslim temples with the crazy-complex geometric ceilings. The concept of target confusion ties into this. This is a really fun, really interesting aspect of the universe and cognition, this repetition, defocusing stuff. The effects a repeating pattern can have on the mind, through the senses. You can induce a spiritual experience by repeated stimulus or action. Like, a zebra’s stripes and an army squad’s jogging chant, and the crystalline structure of metal radio antennas are all utilizing the same mechanism: the de-localization effect of repeated structures. The way elements stop belonging to each piece and start becoming to the whole instead.