Posted by Mezei on September 24, 1999 at 10:24:30:

In Reply to: Re: Final Version of UTK posted by Mezei on September 24, 1999 at 10:04:03:

To continue with the bar-magnet, if you look at Michelangelo's sistine ceiling, you will see that the fresco is in the shape of a barmagnet. You will also notice that at one end, a very dynamic figure, at the other end a very passive figure. And the range of the ceiling itself, the 9 paintings, can be divided into 3 themes (body/mind/spirit). Proof? The first panel of Mind is the Adam and God. The shape of the human brain is painted behind God. As well, the entire fresco is offset with prophets that, upon examination are opposites (male on one side, female on the other). The ceiling is really the first western UTK.

The reason Neils Bohr chose a Tao as his coat of arms is that he too recognized the interdependence of opposites as a unifying theme. Now, what a western UTK represents is a formal definition of the Tao. The tao is undefined, or open to definition. A UTK is a rigid, formal definition of EXACTLY THOSE PRINCIPLES, the interdependence of opposites. To arrive at it, an intellectually challenging process, involves doing what you've done, devising a means for explaining an obvious surface effect.

Another successful weltbild is Prisig's book LILA. He spent about 14 years devising a UTK, and it corresponds with mine, and with the ceiling, so coincidence?

Don

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