At 22:28 26/05/2002, Michael Weitzel wrote:
Am Freitag, den 10. Mai 2002, um 10:48h schrieb Morgan L. Owens:
I guess it just goes to show something about human neurophysiology - symmetry suggests biology.
I think that symmetry is very important to humans ... behaviourists found out that people with perfectly symmetric faces are more often described as being beautiful and nice (just by looking at pictures showing their faces). I think symmetry is also the key to the fractal's special charm.
And symmetrical things tended to be more important in everyday life back when our hardwiring was going on - trees tended not to attack people. Morgan L. Owens "There are only three options. It thinks we're a threat, food or a mate. It's going to kill us, eat us or hump us. We either persuade it we're not that kind of oceanic salvage vessel or we scarper, pronto."