Secret of the Zebra...Catalyst to New Thought?


Reflect deeply upon the Zebra's markings. Stripes circumscribe... then seem to explode in a uniform race around the animal's body only to culminate in a mental mystery. In that moment, one wonders about the reason for such optical impact and stark contrast of dark on light design...worthy of the finest computer-graphic rendering. Considering such "contemporary" design levels imbedded within the roots of so-called primal being, humanity's thoughts on everyday utility seem inadequate by comparison.

At what point did “Nature” (or some ancient genetic engineer) decide to genetically map the mathematical "fractallian" precision onto the body of such a beautiful specimen as the Zebra? Did it just manifest through evolution, or is there something more extraordinary to the puzzle? Some believe there must be a gestalt secret entwined within the matrix of biological information and processing of programmable DNA that is evident in the symbol of the stripes. Could it be a created messenger from an ancient geneticist's cause for aesthetic communication across the ages? To think of the complexity involved in such a theory, boggles the mind and upsets more than the old bromide of which came first...the "white horse" or the dark stripes. Something strange and different goes on when one delves deeply beyond the implied common science.

Could the knowledge of non-linear dynamics known by an ancient sentient civilization have genetically manufactured animals, including Zebras, if it had in its possession the basics of Fractal Geometry...could we? In the near future, research will produce a gargantuan amount of geologic and genetic data on the environment and the human genome. Couple this new information with the other leading-edge fields of Holography, Nanotechnology, Super Computers, Virtual Reality, Microbiology, and many more, then use the mathematical loom of Fractals to weave theory into reality, and we may find ourselves face-to-face with a checkered Zebra.

Fractua" is Latin for irregular, so Benoit Mandelbrot (an IBM Fellow) coined the name "fractals" (1980) for his new self-similar geometry, which can emulate the visual dictates of the world of chaos and the dimensional reality of natural forms. Fractal Geometry can define reality in a numerical fashion as it exists in the micro and macro realms...thus digitally mapping all being, via quantum manipulation and on-going change factors which are broadcast within the electromagnetic spectrum and throughout eternity.

The fact that some students of knowledge seem to miss when entranced by the symbol of the Mandelbrot Set's "island molecule," is that it looks exactly like a silhouetted sitting Buddha. To accidentally stumble upon such synchronism between a mathematical equation for reality and a philosophical icon for life (Buddha) is indeed awesome for those who seek the arcane wisdom of the gods. If the two were truly related, perhaps more investigation would bridge the gaps between ancient religion and modern science. Both are really looking for the same understanding of truthful existence in this Universe. However, the point remains...there are no schools of thought higher than Truth...though its secret is ever fleeting.

Issac Asimov reinforced the above by stating that the secrets of the Universe are enfolded in fractals and that the enigma of this constancy will remain forever unknown. Other scientists think otherwise and are in a heated race to frame a fractal-future in a new and fascinating understanding that could finally addresses the concepts of infinite creation through a quantum/holographic/fractal marriage.

Most of Nature still remains hidden from the vision of truth. We must in the coming decade stare to the depths of "what-if-thought" and realize life's deeper understandings. Causes and issues such as the Earth's rain forests being consumed at exponential rates, spurs some of us to fight such economic greed knowing that the plants that grow there are sources of extracts that are far more precious to us as cures for disease rather than being "slashed" lands for coffee or other crops. Their worth is still enfolded within the grasp of Natures packaging waiting for intellectual release.

While predestined cycles approach a point of serendipity, and a plethora of causal ingredients point to a paradigm of why man exists on this earth, some men still see with the veil of illusion crystallized between their retinas and the mind's eye of intuitional knowledge...the sixth sense. Consciousness resides at levels prefixed at the "un," the "sub," and shoots to a high of super-consciousness. Now, psycho-cognitive and other scientific research reinforces old myths into truths that higher understanding only amplifies as mankind sheds its "selfdom" for altruistic beliefs, thereby ushering in a realm of higher consciousness.

How deeply does mankind truly see? Can we match mind to wisdom and perceive that there are greater unknowns (than the Zebra's stripes) just floating around us waiting to be discovered? Or, does the cause of the "ENIGMNI" (the absolute ultimate unknowable) exert its power over mankind's quest to push forever the envelope of reality beyond our own comprehension? Perhaps the evolution of alternative means of thought enabling us to see and understand the makings of the Universe will require exploration of creative pathways that go around old empiric paradigms...systems of doing science that have become the tacit infrastructure (a way of expressing unspeakable, yet concrete concepts of life). Have we become victims of our own complex ignorance and are now unable to participate in the "brainstorm" required for tomorrow’s world? Philosophy and Science must again merge in the search for truth...through a rededication to creativity...the ongoing act.

As to the secret of the Zebra -- could mankind have missed the "point" of the ancient Unicorn in that its symbolic message to us was not the one-horned horse, but the one with the gift of Fractal Geometry on its coat to "point" (guide) our way from the beginnings of our time to the grand leaps required of our complex future. Orientation for a new viewpoint may be dawning. Considering where we are in human development... it is something to think about.

dont worry gang i've already called them....just think happy thoughts and you'll be ok till they get here!

I will never understand where people get some of this stuff.

Zebras have those markings because the stripes distort their form. This helps from being singled out by predators, when they are in herds... All the prey sees are a bunch of stripes, and a lot of heads, but no body formation. Therefore they cannot pick just one zebra to go after-and that is usually the only way a predator will catch one.










Mind Freak has spoken!

interestingly enough the zebra camouflage was copied by the allies in ww1 and applied to their ships. It worked so well that numerous navies copied it. The camoflage confused rangefinders of submarines and ship gunnery. It was called 'dazzle camouflage'

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/8163/dazzle.htm

Indeed, and Zebras with superior camouflage (or that were just lucky) tended to survive, favoring the passage of the trait into the next generation. There's nothing magical about it, and I would suggest, Orion von Koch, that you lay off the LSD for a while.

I suggest you study a little deeper. I am not on any drug and meditate to gain superior knowledge as many of you could do...but no. Look up fractals or google it and you will find the mathematical data that proves that ancient man did know fractals and that it is indeed at the base of our creation. Learn a little about Fractals before you say things bad about teachers.

I bet you didn't even know fractals were related to chaos theory, because you never answered my question in the other thread.

I know more than you think? I know more than I think. It has been one heck of a trip...

Then you must not think too much of yourself.

And what is the source for these ludicrous theories?

Yeah. Your fractal ideas *are* possible. But the problem with this and intelligent design are that in order for something to be created it needs a creator. Therefore, any debate like this goes back to saying something such as, "If God created everything, then where did God come from?" So where did these "people" get the knowledge to do such things?

Fractals DO appear naturally, but they are just part of nature; there is nothing particularly mysterious about them. Moreover, on which do you base your assumption that ancient man knew of fractals? The unicorn may simply have been a pleasing image, and an aurochs (now extinct wild ancestor of modern cattle) looks like a one-horned beast when drawn from the side.

How can you be a member of an "unexplained mysteries" forum and critisize this persons theory? Everything on here makes no sense, is bizarre, strange, and mindboggling. That's why they call it "unexplained". Come on guys lighten up. If you dont like his theory then dont comment on it.

You poor guys need some time to think. If you can go to nature without any other human around and just sit and think on the information I put up front, then you will see, I have a point. In fact, I am right on.

Those of you who ask where did God come from, well did you ever think that perhaps there just might be a concept called forever. Why does something have to come from anything when it has always been. Always. It is not unlike Eternity. Or, Timelessness. Just because you think you created yourself, via evolving plastic matter into a non-thinking being who cannot believe there is anything higher than yourselves does not mean it is true. Check out Einstein, Bohm and Paul Davies. Amplify your minds beyond the university liberals who have locked your minds in to loving only yourselves. You had to come from an issuing means not unlike broadcast. Our universe is pixelated with atomic structure...that creates the virtual realm. But, what of the Generative Order?

When did you stop learning?

Yet we have a proven scientific theory showing that the universe, at least in its present form, DID have a beginning, 15-20 billion years ago in the Big Bang. That means that if you believe in God, the burden is on you to argue why he exists. Is he somehow beyond time?

Incidently, I HAVE read Paul Davies and Einstein, both of whom believe in Evolution. Davies buys into the idiotic Anthropomorphic Argument, which claims that the universe seems perfectly made for us, and minutely changing any rules in it would kill us, so it must have been made for us. Never mind that this is putting the cart before the horse; the reason the universe seems so perfectly made for human beings is because human beings are part of life that adapted to the universe's constants. Were the constants different, but enough that some form of life could evolve, then that life would seem perfectly fit for its universe. Einstein, on the other hand, was a deist, which I see nothing wrong with. It simply means that he believes that God, or the rational creator, set the laws of physics and universe in motion in the beginning. He certainly did not believe in a personal God.

yes its very odd that Einstein spent the better part of his life trying to prove the theory of intelligent design. But then the man who first conceived the idea of natural evolution and selection also died a deeply religious man....but then so did Isaac Newton.
I wonder what existed before the big bang....and if there was a big bang, who lit the fuse?

Give up attempting to debate Mr. Cook. He is The Authority. Just buy his books so he'll be happy.

But then again, according to Mr. Cook, you should not listen to me because I'm one of those "university liberals who have locked your minds..."

Yes, Liberals utilize emotional blackmail with the best of them. Poor you. Mr. Cook is so mean. Read up on Infromal Fallacy and Non-sequiturs...you may be getting a little rusty.

Einstein may have had a very slight inclination towards believing that God set the laws of the universe in motion in the beginning, but even that is suspect; he believed in a static universe (in which it is neither expanding nor contracting), meaning a universe that, in his opinion, had existed forever. He spent the last years of his life trying to find a Unified Theory explaining and linking the Four Forces in nature (Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear, Electromagnetism, and Gravity). He did not spend it trying to 'prove intelligent design.'

Darwin was a very religious man before he went out on the journey, but by the time of his death, he was, at best, a theistic evolutionist (and probably a deist as well). He did not recant evolution on his deathbed (A story invented by Lady Hope, a rather strong Fundamentalist. Darwin's family stated that she had never shown up in the last weeks of his life, and Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, was at his father's side for the last few weeks of his life and reported that his father said no such thing, to him, or anyone else).

Newton, on the other hand, was a very religious man throughout his life. Religion was only the beginnning, though; Newton was heavily involved in Alchemy, and other such mysticism, of which his writings on Gravity and Motion are dwarfed in comparison. His beliefs, however, don't matter in deciding whether or not his science is accurate.

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done."

Sorry, I can't resist nitpicking this. Gravity actually had a lot to do with how the planets were set in motion. In the primordial cloud of matter that became our solar system, chunks of matter collided and collided for millions of years, until a few of the pieces became large enough to generate "significant" gravity- meaning enough to pull other pieces in.

then u should tell it to Sir Isaac Newton.

also that doesnt explain how they were set into motion, it simply explaisn how they came to be, which newton explains was gravity.

But it DOES explain how they formed, why they formed, and why they are where they are now. Obviously, my post was a vastly incomplete description, but there's a better one here.

Probably a better question for the metaphysicists and religious folk would be "Why are there universal laws, such as gravity, that lead to the formation of planets, some of which are capable of sustaining life?"

I know how solar systems are formed, but when u keep going further and further back, u stop getting answers. The quote was from Newton, HE said it, so if u want to compile a cosmological arguement debunkin Newtons apparent lack of universal mechanics, go right ahead good buddy.

The fact that Newton said it, does not make it true. Newton's knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics was noticeably lacking in comparison to modern day scientists.

Hey kmon guys. We're not here to argue and make personal attacks. If you're going to criticize another's theories, do it properly and without such stabbing statements. We're here to share ideas, to broaden our knowledge of the unexplained world. Not to be childish.

Well said. I would have loved having you as one of my students.

Can we really learn if everyone agrees on everything? It's good to disagree (to see things from a different perspective), but of course without being disagreeable.

I know I disagree a lot. You are right.

Do you disagree, just to disagree? Or do you disagree because you really don't agree with the other person? I can't tell. Sometimes you seem very logical. Other times you seem to be in your own little world...I don't know what to think.









Mind Freak has spoken!

Ah I see, it wasn't evolution at work, it was an ancient genetic scientist from another planet who has now disappeared with no traces and has created the clever illusion that evolution really works, when it was all just a got photoshop job.



Also wrote science fiction...



This doesn't actually make any sense.

Well that was totally worthless.

In your opinion.

Your wealth of scientific knowledge inclosed in a brilliant, insightful thread was worthless, or my comments on your opening post?

Indeed. I respectfully state that I have never read such a load of nonsense than what you have written in this thread. It is so ludicrous in nature and pompously as well as arrogantly presented that I can only imagine your actual credibility level amongst even the hardcore psudo-scientific community.

Please please please, do not give up that day job.

But Richdog, you have failed to point out that he knows a lot of long words.

You cute folks are on your way to becoming sweet little liberals who cannot think beyond the lock of your dogma. Who among you can think outside of the box long enough to even recognize a potential reality. Making fun of others is a primary technique of informal fallacy and utilizing the non sequitur. I am a science fiction writer...can you not see the difference? Much of Science Fiction actually becomes truth in time...hide and watch.

Some people to like to say a lot without actually saying anything...



Ah, well that explains a lot.



Yes...like we will be living on the moon in 1999, have warp engines and are hunting down defective androids who are hell bent on destroying the Spanish Princess...

Oh. My. God. You actually do seriously believe that Zebras are evidence of ancient advanced beings.

Methinks you have trouble seperating reality from fiction, and i'm afraid to say your extensive vocabulary does not stop your writing being awkward and unwieldy. You may be a science-fiction writer, but ultimately not a particularly accomplished one.

You know as well as we do that you will never be taken seriously, indeed you must be well-used to this reaction by now. However I wish you well for the future, and hope, nay reccommend, that you learn not to take yourself too seriously.

Rich.

Richdog, Ed, and other rational-thinking UMers,

Leave Mr. Cook alone. Attempting to debate with him is futile. He just wants to raise awareness towards himself and his ideas in order to sell his books. His purpose here is pure self-aggrandizement.

Sure, that is why I give them away free online. I have 3,000 students who would beg to differ with your accessment.

Just because they're free doesn't mean you're not selling.

It is hard for many people to comprehend, that which they don't understand. First, you must experience then comes understanding. No matter how many books you read or how many degrees you earn, you never truly understand, until you experience... and that which you don't experience in this life, you will surely experience in the next, if you so choose. I understand what you are saying about zebra's, the same can be said about a leaf or a flower. If a human being can create Mandala Sand Art, then I don't doubt that an advanced being may have created stripes on zebras, for whatever reason. I am often thankful that my mind is not closed to infinite possibilities. I appreciate your writing, as I am an aspiring writer myself there aren't to many thought provoking threads on this site and I like learning 'new' big words...but remember to be 'simple' at the same time


in Light and Love to ALL, Me_Again
edit: uggg, I fogot to spell check, but thats what editors are for - right

i dont understand, why did they only make the Zebras, where they advanced zebras from space[whow as thier king?!?!?!???], has the Zebra king some kind of.....agenda with the Zebras?, cuase they are identical to horses apart from their pattern?, designd to trick us?!?May......beeee come to think of it, it is a lot of camofluage for a horse to have. Mate what exactly are these Zebra's up to?, u seem to know a lot about their movements, tell me more!!!!!

i like a good book u see.

Fractal Geometry has a pattern exactly like the zebra. Genetics incorporating Fractals in the quantification is not currently utilized by our culture/s. But I believe that there is ample evidence topically to sugest that fractals were used sometime in the past inconjunction with genetic engineering and the Zebra, just might be that experiment.

i still can't quite figure out how a zebra's stripes are fractals. are the stripes self-similar, so when you zoom in you see that the stripes are made of more stripes? if you were looking for fractals in nature, why not look at trees (made of lots of forked bits)? or a mountain (it's a big triangle, when you zoom in on the top, ot is still triangular)?

will someone please explain to me how a zebra's stripes are fractal?

froth...

It is evident that the formula for the genetic engineering that took place incorporates a designed fractal in the DNA. For this design to appear on the coat of an animal it suggests that fractals might have been utilized by an advanced race to send forward to future beings that this reality is indeed the child of an earlier advanced civilization.

yeah. zebras are tight, sorry to get off topic...im not sure if this has been said, but along w/ clues, i believe nature has left windows open as well....there are depths of our minds that we cant even fathom, but when one say, smokes a dried plant leaf, or simply plucks the right muchroom and eats it, they are lulled into a completely different state in which they think things they had NEVER thought before. sometimes, perspectives and habbits are changed through these insights deeper into our brains...just something nature left out in the woods somewhere...