Friday Fractal XXXIV

Fractal Cognition:

An abstract layered fractal, incorporating two types of Julia sets and an L-System fractal (pictured at right, below)

This fractal was inspired by some of the ideas I've posted lately. Here are a few tidbits for context:

We only see a fraction of an ever-changing cosmos. Each fragment that we observe, whether within ourselves or gleaned from the sensations registered in our minds, adds to the entropy of the cosmos, inducing more change. It is an imperfect pursuit, but we are active participants, whether we choose to look, or not. It is important for humankind, armed with a variety of tools and conventions for understanding, to try to gain as much knowledge as we are able. With that knowledge, we successfully add to the diversity of the evolving whole. A Dangerous Knowledge

We are just now developing the crude tools we require for understanding the relationship between the brain, perception, and reality itself. A Delay from Reality

The evolution of thinking machines has at times, like ecology, undergone dramatic explosions, so that now the possibility of a computer with a mind is not only likely, but inevitable.The Computer and the Consciousness

And so the twists tighten

Embracing us in the grip

Of convergence

Spinning helplessly

Towards emergence

A burgeoning mind

Of the societal body

Do we think?

Do we know?

Or do we cry out

Like helpless children

Echoing a lonely fear

A collective infant voice

Rising from the clamor

"Am I the only one?"

But does the mother listen?

Embryonic Cognition

All fractals made by the author using ChaosPro.