Analogia entis as analogy universalized and formalized rigorously and mathema...Vasil Penchev
THE SECOND WORLD CONGRESS ON ANALOGY, POZNAŃ, MAY 24-26, 2017
(The Venue: Sala Lubrańskiego (Lubrański’s Hall at the Collegium Minus), Adam Mickiewicz University, Address: ul. Wieniawskiego 1) The presentation: 24 May, 15:30
Что такое онлайн-маркетинг? Зачем он вообще нужен? Разве нельзя просто запустить сайт и все? В своем выступлении я постараюсь ответить на эти вопросы, расскажу об интереснейшем мире онлайн-маркетинга и дам пару советов, что делать программисту, если «маркетологи просят тебя помочь».
Analogia entis as analogy universalized and formalized rigorously and mathema...Vasil Penchev
THE SECOND WORLD CONGRESS ON ANALOGY, POZNAŃ, MAY 24-26, 2017
(The Venue: Sala Lubrańskiego (Lubrański’s Hall at the Collegium Minus), Adam Mickiewicz University, Address: ul. Wieniawskiego 1) The presentation: 24 May, 15:30
Что такое онлайн-маркетинг? Зачем он вообще нужен? Разве нельзя просто запустить сайт и все? В своем выступлении я постараюсь ответить на эти вопросы, расскажу об интереснейшем мире онлайн-маркетинга и дам пару советов, что делать программисту, если «маркетологи просят тебя помочь».
“I don’t know” is certainly the most common answer I give to my clients’ questions. That may sound crazy, but I actually think it’s the smartest thing you can say as a freelancer. BUT I know how to find out, and when I do, I'll deliver them the most informed and creative answer they have ever heard. User surveys, forms, interviews, A/B testing, big shift and even street events, "I will explain how to combine the power of intuition with logic and reasoning to reach very significant results. Because after all, the biggest barriers to great work and creativity is not money, time or technical limitations but MENTAL obstacles.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adrien is a digital expert helping startups & advertising agencies to reach the highest summit focusing on UI & UX design, digital and marketing strategy. He's the Founder of Creatives Without Borders, design teacher, startups mentor & investor, he also writes articles about entrepreneurship, freelance and self development. He is currently based in New York City.
As we move into a new year – with the breakneck velocity that is the new normal for technology – NetApp CTO Jay Kidd presents his forecast for 2014. Below are his 10 technology predictions for 2014. Although both hybrid cloud and accelerated adoption of new technologies will be dominant themes for 2014, IT’s changing and more central role in the business will be critical to a successful year ahead. Learn more: http://nt-ap.com/1e89gMh
Designing Creative Teams: Play makes Hay!
Play releases most Potential, Most Easily, Adding Most Value.
What works for Teams also works for Nature. Why?
Good Form follows True, Beautiful Flow.
It’s built into the way the world works, from geometry to nature, people and society. It’s called Universality and it works for everything…including Football (so it must be true)!
Like a Penrose tiling, finite shapes can create infinitely varied patterns.
This is how universality explores possibilities most easily.
Does that sound familiar? It should — because it’s Play.
Play in terms of recreation, making plans, models and theatre to explore new concepts, ideas and hypotheticals.
What the new sciences of complexity tell us is that Nature can self-organise to evolve, and it does it with lateral, playful dynamics that explore as much information in a possibility-space as possible, most simply & quickly.
Teams are a collective consciousness. So they both work best when they’re connected in as many and varied ways as possible.
When they’re both bottom-up as well as top-down.
Vertical and lateral, focussed and playful in turn, especially when problems need solving and new thinking is needed.
Look at the circles in this background image and how they change relative positions and sizes. That’s just what creativity is — playing with permutations and potentials to find the most ideal and fit for purpose arrangements.
Creativity is both divergent as well as convergent — and it yields moments that flip modes — or even keep both (or several), in superposition, most easily.
In terms of Nash Equilibrium, the most potential is released for the least energy cost during self-organised critical, phase-transition regimes (known as dynamical systems universality); when co-operation replaces conflict.
The geometry of the natural world into which we’re all embedded is fractal and recursively self-similar, it’s feedback-led, bottom up and top down in symphonic harmony, adaptive & resilient, rhyming and resonant, delivering gestalt (wholes that are more than the some of their parts — synergies). That’s what empathy is: emotional fractals and self-similarity between individuals and within teams.
So the best teams are the ones that are best curated and synergised by empathic mentors that tolerate and encourage equality & pluralism.
It’s what the French called an Espirit de Corps and is why a happy, healthy and creative team is also a pluralistic democracy that thrives on diversity, simplexity, shared information and humour, on leadership from the front delivering fulfilled potential for both individuals and the unit — on an emergent unity of shared purpose and meaning, rather than as an imposed, authoritarian “dick-tatorship”.
The geometries that best express these (ultimately, information), flows and behaviours are those of the Asynsis principle — and since they
TEDx WanChai Sat 23 Aug 2014
Form follows Flow
Dao of Design in Nature & Culture
I'm sharing how elegance in nature transforms into beauty & sustainability in culture, how beauty flows in time.
The new Asynsis principle-Constructal law design paradigm: bridging western geometry and eastern philosophy.
http://asynsis.styleonedigital.com/archives/4017
Sharing the #Asynsis principle last Fri June 2016 @ UniLab Shanghai with our #Disney, #SciArc, China Academy of Art, E-Grow and #Gehry Technologies friends - now http://www.neuni-lab.com/?lang=en
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIzNzE4OTQ3NA%3D%3D&mid=2649408862&idx=1&sn=77cc488498d59c59bf7d7425b9b2779e&scene=1&srcid=0616Dm9s73X5jSPy8xnnA0gm&from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0
https://www.facebook.com/HKEcoLivable
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/18/can-hong-kong-lead-the-way-in-asia-to-a-sustainable-future/
http://www.scoop.it/t/asynsis-principle-constructal-law
https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS
Why anything rather than nothing? The answer of quantum mechnaicsVasil Penchev
Many researchers determine the question “Why anything
rather than nothing?” to be the most ancient and fundamental philosophical problem. It is closely related to the idea of Creation shared by religion, science, and philosophy, for example in the shape of the “Big Bang”, the doctrine of first cause or causa sui, the Creation in six days in the Bible, etc. Thus, the solution of quantum mechanics, being scientific in essence, can also be interpreted philosophically, and even religiously. This paper will only discuss the philosophical interpretation. The essence of the answer of quantum mechanics is: 1.) Creation is necessary in a rigorously mathematical sense. Thus, it does not need any hoice, free will, subject, God, etc. to appear. The world exists by virtue of mathematical necessity, e.g. as any mathematical truth such as 2+2=4; and 2.) Being is less than nothing rather than ore than nothing. Thus creation is not an increase of nothing, but the decrease of nothing: it is a deficiency in relation to nothing. Time and its “arrow” form the road from that diminishment or incompleteness to nothing.
“I don’t know” is certainly the most common answer I give to my clients’ questions. That may sound crazy, but I actually think it’s the smartest thing you can say as a freelancer. BUT I know how to find out, and when I do, I'll deliver them the most informed and creative answer they have ever heard. User surveys, forms, interviews, A/B testing, big shift and even street events, "I will explain how to combine the power of intuition with logic and reasoning to reach very significant results. Because after all, the biggest barriers to great work and creativity is not money, time or technical limitations but MENTAL obstacles.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adrien is a digital expert helping startups & advertising agencies to reach the highest summit focusing on UI & UX design, digital and marketing strategy. He's the Founder of Creatives Without Borders, design teacher, startups mentor & investor, he also writes articles about entrepreneurship, freelance and self development. He is currently based in New York City.
As we move into a new year – with the breakneck velocity that is the new normal for technology – NetApp CTO Jay Kidd presents his forecast for 2014. Below are his 10 technology predictions for 2014. Although both hybrid cloud and accelerated adoption of new technologies will be dominant themes for 2014, IT’s changing and more central role in the business will be critical to a successful year ahead. Learn more: http://nt-ap.com/1e89gMh
Designing Creative Teams: Play makes Hay!
Play releases most Potential, Most Easily, Adding Most Value.
What works for Teams also works for Nature. Why?
Good Form follows True, Beautiful Flow.
It’s built into the way the world works, from geometry to nature, people and society. It’s called Universality and it works for everything…including Football (so it must be true)!
Like a Penrose tiling, finite shapes can create infinitely varied patterns.
This is how universality explores possibilities most easily.
Does that sound familiar? It should — because it’s Play.
Play in terms of recreation, making plans, models and theatre to explore new concepts, ideas and hypotheticals.
What the new sciences of complexity tell us is that Nature can self-organise to evolve, and it does it with lateral, playful dynamics that explore as much information in a possibility-space as possible, most simply & quickly.
Teams are a collective consciousness. So they both work best when they’re connected in as many and varied ways as possible.
When they’re both bottom-up as well as top-down.
Vertical and lateral, focussed and playful in turn, especially when problems need solving and new thinking is needed.
Look at the circles in this background image and how they change relative positions and sizes. That’s just what creativity is — playing with permutations and potentials to find the most ideal and fit for purpose arrangements.
Creativity is both divergent as well as convergent — and it yields moments that flip modes — or even keep both (or several), in superposition, most easily.
In terms of Nash Equilibrium, the most potential is released for the least energy cost during self-organised critical, phase-transition regimes (known as dynamical systems universality); when co-operation replaces conflict.
The geometry of the natural world into which we’re all embedded is fractal and recursively self-similar, it’s feedback-led, bottom up and top down in symphonic harmony, adaptive & resilient, rhyming and resonant, delivering gestalt (wholes that are more than the some of their parts — synergies). That’s what empathy is: emotional fractals and self-similarity between individuals and within teams.
So the best teams are the ones that are best curated and synergised by empathic mentors that tolerate and encourage equality & pluralism.
It’s what the French called an Espirit de Corps and is why a happy, healthy and creative team is also a pluralistic democracy that thrives on diversity, simplexity, shared information and humour, on leadership from the front delivering fulfilled potential for both individuals and the unit — on an emergent unity of shared purpose and meaning, rather than as an imposed, authoritarian “dick-tatorship”.
The geometries that best express these (ultimately, information), flows and behaviours are those of the Asynsis principle — and since they
TEDx WanChai Sat 23 Aug 2014
Form follows Flow
Dao of Design in Nature & Culture
I'm sharing how elegance in nature transforms into beauty & sustainability in culture, how beauty flows in time.
The new Asynsis principle-Constructal law design paradigm: bridging western geometry and eastern philosophy.
http://asynsis.styleonedigital.com/archives/4017
Sharing the #Asynsis principle last Fri June 2016 @ UniLab Shanghai with our #Disney, #SciArc, China Academy of Art, E-Grow and #Gehry Technologies friends - now http://www.neuni-lab.com/?lang=en
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIzNzE4OTQ3NA%3D%3D&mid=2649408862&idx=1&sn=77cc488498d59c59bf7d7425b9b2779e&scene=1&srcid=0616Dm9s73X5jSPy8xnnA0gm&from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0
https://www.facebook.com/HKEcoLivable
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/18/can-hong-kong-lead-the-way-in-asia-to-a-sustainable-future/
http://www.scoop.it/t/asynsis-principle-constructal-law
https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS
Why anything rather than nothing? The answer of quantum mechnaicsVasil Penchev
Many researchers determine the question “Why anything
rather than nothing?” to be the most ancient and fundamental philosophical problem. It is closely related to the idea of Creation shared by religion, science, and philosophy, for example in the shape of the “Big Bang”, the doctrine of first cause or causa sui, the Creation in six days in the Bible, etc. Thus, the solution of quantum mechanics, being scientific in essence, can also be interpreted philosophically, and even religiously. This paper will only discuss the philosophical interpretation. The essence of the answer of quantum mechanics is: 1.) Creation is necessary in a rigorously mathematical sense. Thus, it does not need any hoice, free will, subject, God, etc. to appear. The world exists by virtue of mathematical necessity, e.g. as any mathematical truth such as 2+2=4; and 2.) Being is less than nothing rather than ore than nothing. Thus creation is not an increase of nothing, but the decrease of nothing: it is a deficiency in relation to nothing. Time and its “arrow” form the road from that diminishment or incompleteness to nothing.
Chapter 2. The Design ArgumentChapter 2The Design Argument .docxspoonerneddy
Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
Each column, each piece of marble, each statue, each architectural element makes its own contribution to the overall harmony of the whole; the beauty of the structure emerges from the .
Chapter 2. The Design ArgumentChapter 2The Design Argument .docxketurahhazelhurst
Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
Each column, each piece of marble, each statue, each architectural element makes its own contribution to the overall harmony of the whole; the beauty of the structure emerges from the ...
Speech by thinker Alexis Karpouzos in the international curriculum "Transformation of Thought and Evolution of Consciousness’’ that was organized in summer 2016 in Athens
We live in a universe that can be seen and experienced from many different perspectives. We therefore need to look at the universe from many different angles. Everything and everyone is a form of the universe being expressed in a particular way. In other words, each one of us can say with absolute certainly "We are the Universe!" Since we are the universe, each one of us provides a valuable perspective that complements the contributions of everyone and everything else around us.Each of us is the universe being expressed in a particular location in a specific way. We're all part of the same moving and evolving cosmos, but the view of it is unique from each of our respective locations. This suggests that the universe is not only omnicentric, but that it is also multiperspectival – there are many different, and equally valid, viewpoints on this. Each one of us is a cosmic laboratory within which we can discover the secrets of the universe.
A MetaLoop Executive Summary & Briefing Paper for Decision Makers.
The Station Comes To You with the fastest, most seamless Express A to B, to help us de-carbonise and de-congest our cities most easily and quickly, while sparking a Productivity & Revenue boom.
MetaLoop for Aerotropolis, Sydney NSW, Australia.
#MetaLoop, the benefits multiply: zero-emissions, active transit, health, well-being, city-cooling, place-making, urban-farming, productivity-gains, renewable energy generation, distribution and storage, drone-delivery, de-carbonisation, de-congestion, faster A-B than any other means (so more quality-time for users), better Covid-19 hygiene and social-distancing and personal safety from personalised rapid-transit, circular-doughnut economy, #GreenNewDeal platform delivering jobs and growth, re-wilding countryside for species diversity and carbon sequestration, greater rainfall micro-climates, the list goes on because this is a Fourth Industrial Revolution application.
https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/infrastructure/the-future-of-transit-in-cities-is-point-to-point-mobility-that-mimics-nature/ https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS/metaloop-f5caa684d1e9
"The Station comes to You" with the 5 revenues generating Express A-B MetaLoop transit network, shared as an attendee at the Australia Institute Revenue and Climate Integrity Summits 2022-3, Parliament House Canberra, Australia
MetaLoop Moonshot 2030 - a "Better than (the) Boring (company)" renewables-powered personal rapid transit solution to decarbonise and decongest our cities as rapidly and cost-effectively as possible.
This is by following first principles, TED-shared design thinking, geometry and physics principles that we first published from 1994 in AD Magazine, London, John Wiley & Sons and TEDx Wanchai, Hong Kong in 2014, and have developed with our consultant, mobility manufacturer and academic team partners since.
For all inquiries, please contact us via Asynsis.com.
Asynsis Shanghai Villa published in Perspective Magazine, Hong Kong
Shanghai Xijiao State Guest Hotel environs, Hongqiao VIP Corporate Guest Villa for Jinbo Design + Construct Group: Exclusive corporate hospitality villa in the environs of Xijiao State Hotel.
Preferred residence of numerous heads of state such as US President Barack Obama, Queen Elisabeth II, Emperor Akihito, Chairmans Mao and Deng.
Developed from fusion of two initial concepts: Modernist Japanese minimalism (referencing Carlo Scarpa) and Mannerist Renaissance Architecture with a touch of Moorish style in the Atrium fountains.
Facilities: 3 guestrooms, 4 bathrooms, study, walk-in robe, dining + ensuite, kitchen, salon, gallery, atrium, fountain, terrace, wine cellar, games room;
over 4 floors with extensive use of alabaster, onyx, granite, quartz, exotic marbles and delicate stone-inlay/mosaic flooring.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
ARENA - Young adults in the workplace (Knight Moves).pdfKnight Moves
Presentations of Bavo Raeymaekers (Project lead youth unemployment at the City of Antwerp), Suzan Martens (Service designer at Knight Moves) and Adriaan De Keersmaeker (Community manager at Talk to C)
during the 'Arena • Young adults in the workplace' conference hosted by Knight Moves.
Storytelling For The Web: Integrate Storytelling in your Design ProcessChiara Aliotta
In this slides I explain how I have used storytelling techniques to elevate websites and brands and create memorable user experiences. You can discover practical tips as I showcase the elements of good storytelling and its applied to some examples of diverse brands/projects..
Maximize Your Content with Beautiful Assets : Content & Asset for Landing Page pmgdscunsri
Figma is a cloud-based design tool widely used by designers for prototyping, UI/UX design, and real-time collaboration. With features such as precision pen tools, grid system, and reusable components, Figma makes it easy for teams to work together on design projects. Its flexibility and accessibility make Figma a top choice in the digital age.
Fonts play a crucial role in both User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design. They affect readability, accessibility, aesthetics, and overall user perception.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Visual Style and Aesthetics: Basics of Visual Design
Visual Design for Enterprise Applications
Range of Visual Styles.
Mobile Interfaces:
Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Design
Approach to Mobile Design
Patterns
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
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Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
1. Is there a New Geometric Law
of Thermodynamics?
Constructal Law Conference 2013
Nanjing University of Science & Technology
Nanjing, China
Design as (a bridge between Art and) Science
2. ASYNSIS principle: a new
design, construction &
operations optimisation
paradigm –
how design in nature & culture emerges optimally,
analogically and innately via geometry, from entropy
More 4 Less
Form follows Flow
Geometry of Nature in Space (& optimal Time)
Cultural production: Design bridging Art & Science
Exemplar projects in Design and Society
3. “Let no one who is ignorant
of Geometry enter these
gates”
Plato
Thermodynamics:
0th Law: internal thermodynamic equilibrium
1st Law: all energy is conserved/transformed
2nd Law: disorder never decreases in isolated
systems
3rd Law: achieving absolute zero impossible in finite
steps
4. 777
Global Flight Paths
A380
Boeing 777: Shanghai – Kuala Lumpur: 300+
Airbus A380: Kuala Lumpur – London: 555+
What do KL-LHR flight paths and Rolls Royce have in common?
Design
5. Asynsis Principle - Constructal Law
Geometric Signatures
Physical Behaviours
A new, sustainable, geometric design principle and universal
thermodynamic physics law of nature and culture
How via dynamical symmetries, design in nature, consciousness
& culture emerges optimally, analogically from entropy
Biomimesis + Universal Thermodynamics = Cosmomimesis:
which is informed by both animate & inanimate nature
A new paradigm for Cosmomimetic Architecture, Design &
(perhaps even societal), Development that includes nature
mimicry as it’s most simply complex
6. Constructal law
Go with the flow, since the multiverse is lazy, likes the freedom to morph (because
it’s good for design) – and likes to repeat herself
“Given freedom, for a finite-size system to persist in time (to live),
it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the
imposed currents that flow through it.”
Nature & culture evolve to allow currents of energy, matter and
information to flow more easily with greater force and complexity over
time, analagous to principle of least action and Occams razor
These flows move from areas to points and from points to areas, from
infinite to finite dimensions of freedom and back, facilitating the
tendency of these systems to creatively, optimally seek equilibrium by
design
Constructal is a cross between “construction” and “fractal” – it
explains the thermodynamic source or cause of fractal geometry
7. Asynsis principle
“Design in nature, consciousness and culture emerges analogically, optimally from Entropy”
Nature is both economical & elegant as it self-designs through feedback & self-organised
emergence over time, it’s how nature’s dynamical symmetries leave traces in space
If Constructal law is the dancers’ performance, Asynsis hints at their choreography
Asynsis is a confluence of “asymptotic” “synergy” & “synthesis” – it reveals idealised,
fundamental temporal architectures & geometries of the complex dynamical systems
described by Constructal law
“Open local dynamical systems when pushed further from thermal equilibrium by
energy flows, minimise their energy-mass dissipation but also optimise their
information and synthetic complexity over time, through the reiteration of archetypal,
convergent, asymptotic, analogical feedback processes which have canonical
symmetries associated with aesthetic beauty and proportion in art, design and
architecture.”
In other words:
“Design in nature innately, analogically, optimally emerges from Entropy”
8. Golden Root 5 geometries are:
Based on Unity’s uniquely self-similar relationship with itself, scaling up or down in perfect
proportion, like an exemplary, finite encoding of the infinite; like coding for archetypal spacetime persistence of energy, matter or information flows as the simplest possible heuristic
device, or memory algorithm that also allows for feedback-led learning and creativity
The simplest way to enfold and implicate complexity by allowing continuously regular, selfsimilar patterns that are also never completely repeating
Rational pursuit of the irrational – root 5 generates the hardest irrational number to
approximate with rational numbers – it allows for infinite creativity with finite resources, for
the best irreducible trade between performance and its cost
Optimally reconciles the infinite with the finite, allowing optimal, analogical access to
mathematical singularities, to the edge of Deterministic Chaos and to universal computation
Almost a geometric template for emergent Complexity and its apotheosis: intelligent,
resilient “consciousness”, be it expressed by a human being, a city, a country or a planet
9. Penrose Tilings - Quasicrystals
Infinite creativity from finite quasiperiodic geometries
Regular, repeating but always different
Optimal balance between order and
chaos – yielding optimal complexity by
analogical design
10. Mandelbrot – Feigenbaum - Phi
Period 2
Period 2
Two new iconic images of the Golden Ratio from Chaos theory
Mandelbrot-set: higher dimensional geometric object with finite
area – but with a paradoxically infinite boundary
Both feature the Golden Ratio as the epitome of Period 2
dynamics – at the Period 2 disk and Bifurcations respectively
Feigenbaum-diagram: Period 2 is lowest-energy dynamic period
possible, Period 1 is stasis (or system equilibrium), Period 3 and
above have multiple equilibria and so consume more energy
11. Golden Ratio - Golden Music
Period 2
Asynsis principle: this fundamental, innate geometry of nature allows for both the 1st and 2nd
laws of thermodynamics to generate local order while global disorder is still increasing
The Asynsis-Golden Ratio Period 2 route is the optimal route to minimise system entropy
production and therefore optimise robustness, fitness, hierarchy, analogy and complexity
Asynsis therefore exemplifies both Sustainabilty and Complexity
Golden ratio behaviour over time is a signature - or harmonic, of energy, matter and
information flow optimisation
It is analogy, economy and harmony exemplified, because it’s also aesthetically beautiful
Like music, it allows nature to rhyme, self-map, code and co-evolve itself using dynamical
symmetry in time, by being spatially asymmetric but temporally symmetric
Unity-mimetic asymmetry in space allows for dynamical symmetries in time
12. Cellular Music - Consciousness
So the Asynsis principle is like music – it’s a dynamic, harmonic analogy of energy, matter
and information flow, optimising and reiterating over time
We love music because it reminds us of the temporal harmonies of the universe
It’s found in the liquid phase-transition zone of maximum possibility in Rule 30 Cellular
Automata, again on the “edge of chaos” or in the “self-organised critical’ zone
It’s also just been found in Phi-integrated information theory and the evolutionary origins of
modularity in human & artificial intelligence models, where fitness robustness is optimised
via modularity in the trade-off between system learning performance and connection costs –
so it is highly likely that Consciousness itself has been (de)Coded (and as implied by the
researchers), that it too has Asynsis geometries
A thought is therefore like an irreducible Godelian loop, a Escherian stair and a Bach fugue
It’s like a river of information in phase space, like a synergistic symphony
13. Music of the Spheres
Back to Pythagoras – to the music of the spheres, to the musical scale and the power of
geometry to read the design of the Universe…to then best preserve nature, by better
emulating her
Along with String-Membrane theory, Asynsis and Constructal Law is old Pythagore’s latest
legacy, but is more relevant to our classically, human-scaled world
Having visited and rested in his cave and meditated on when he was an Assange-like
fugitive from Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, I know I am so fortunate to use geometry in
my own work. No scribed triangles found, but a chapel & surely traces of scorched fire
shadows?
14. Spacetime is Fractal-Holographic
The Asynsis principle confirms the golden ratio is the archetypal fractal geometry
for a holographic cosmology at both relativistic and quantum scales
So it should be no surprise to see it everywhere – even in Stephen Hawking’s
mind (his latest universal theory has a hyperbolic, holographic, fractal geometry),
analogous to an Escher painting
Neither should it be a surprise then to also find it operating in both space and
time at the classical, human scale – as the field of Complexity science is
beginning to reveal
15. Black Hole ;-) Thermodynamic
Behaviours
Relationship of mass to spin when a spinning BH (while absorbing extra mass), switches
from internal heating to cooling behaviour is Golden ratio
Mystery, but may be related to BH entropy/surface area increase and internal phase
transition: just like vapour condensing to water, then ice
Black Hole mass-increase process culminating in space-time singularity is a time-reversal of
Big Bang universe originating from a purported space-time singularity, which symmetrybreaks & phase transitions towards higher entropy from a very low-entropy begining
Phase transition process is analogous to the Feigenbaum diagram, which is also Golden
ratio-based (Nigel Reading, AD magazine 1995, QED, 2006 – see Asynsis Wordpress Blog
for paper - http://asynsis.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/entropy-begets-design-qed/ )
Speculating: possible route to a multiversal cosmos of Black Holes birthing Baby Universes
in an endless branching structure over “parallel” space-times – analogous to “Many Worlds”
theory at quantum level for each symmetry-breaking birfurcation/wavefunction collapse
So perhaps God really is winking at us with Black Hole-Asynsis principle phase transitions
having the same geometry as that for standard model fundamental particles in E8?
16. E8: An Exceptionally Simple
Theory of Everything
A new theory of the standard model of fundamental particles
Based Lie groups, on 8 dimensions with 256 degrees of freedom, of
circles mapping onto themselves
Accounts for standard model and integrates gravity – quantum and
relativity unified
Predicts new particles – including the Higgs Boson
Fundamental geometry is Icosahedral – Golden Ratio
17. Leonardo’s Code
So Leonardo and all the others from Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, Kepler,
Pacioli were right
This is the fundamental, optimal geometry of nature and of how it selfdesigns and evolves sustainably and resiliently whilst also generating
complexity – in both space and as we now see with Asynsis dynamical
symmetries, also for the lowest energy, in time
Such a temporal, dynamic synthesis is unprecedented as the golden
ratio has hitherto only been described in static, non-dynamical,
non-temporal, non-irreversible terms
18. Anthropocene age
Halocene age is yielding to new man-dominated geological
period
Responsibility for Earth’s fate now lies largely with us
Our influence on the biosphere is increasingly negative - but we
can change that right now with an Asynsis Contructal Law (ACL)
- informed, (economic) carrot and (legal) stick approach
Feedback, optimisation and analogy are the key strategies to
create a more resilient, intelligent and adaptive civilisation
19. Phylotaxis-Plant Architecture
Plants use the Golden ratio because it allows optimal strength to
weight, wind-stress distribution, flow of water-nutrients, exposure to air
& sunlight plus growth geometry - for minimal energy cost
The way a whole forest or coral reef behaves is also AsynsisConstructal Law-informed, because it is feed-back led, sustainable,
circular, cradle to cradle and self-organised/regulated
We urgently need to learn from these optimal natural laws and map
them on to our civilisation if we are to survive in harmony with the
biosphere as well as a forest or reef does with their environments
20. 1.5 Planets?
Last time we checked, we only have 1.0 planet – so the situation is utterly unsustainable
For the Earth’s population to all have US/EU living standards, we’d need 4 extra Earths
The current system is therefore clearly dysfunctional since it has allowed this situation to occur
We have system failure due to a failure of leadership – in turn due to an over-concentration of
control by TNCs (often Fossil Fuel interests), over our economies, their manipulation of politics
and the consequent undermining of transparency, accountability, justice and democracy
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
We now have the makings of that new model with this new design law of nature and culture
21. People Profit Planet
Not a zero-sum game – we can cover all three with a carrot & stick strategy
Economic, Environmental, Social - The Triple Bottom Line
Need to “hack the price mechanism”
Need to “create legal sanctions” and campaigning independent journalism
Need more crowd-sourced lobbying of all stakeholders
Need more legal citizen activism to counter systemic-risk of dangerous over
concentration of power by narrow short-term focused interests
22. Asyntopia- Asynsis Sustopia
Initiative: Activism we see & need
http://www.facebook.com/AsynsisSustopiaInitiative
http://www.facebook.com/Ecocide?ref=ts&fref=ts
http://asynsis.wordpress.com
Education, NGO’s (eg: JUCCCE), Social media, Lobbying, Social
commentary, Demonstrations, Direct actions, Sit-ins, Occupations,
Petitions, Art, Satire, Humour, Creative protest (all where legal),
Laws of Ecocide & of course, Creative Green Sustainable Design
23. Self-Organisation
BZ reactions – example of “edge of chaos” auto-catalytic, optimally
creative growth structures and Asynsis principle geometries in action
The same process forms the spiral arms of galaxies as auto-catalysed
star formation waves within the rotating galactic disks
Our civilisation needs to self-(re)design, to self-organise itself to be
more optimal by learning from nature, to practice Cosmomimicry: the
answers as to how, are literally – designed in the heavens
This universe is lazy and frugal for a reason – so it can last longer, so it
can live and persist longest as a sustainable, extended, transient entity
24. Beauty in Art and Science
Is the same as Beauty in Nature
Geometry is the link between the two, so fractal geometry is explained by energy flow, by
thermodynamics, of how resources can flow most easily towards complexity
So if Engineering is a reality-check on Mathematics then Architecture is a reality-check on
Geometry
Design is (a bridge between Art &) Science
So Design is also applied, physical Philosophy – expressed as Geometry
Beauty is complexity, rendered simply: symmetrically, analogically, optimally – so Asynsis is
also a universal theory of beauty in design, of simplexity
25. Geometry
Is the architectural design of the universe – in space and time, it is the Logos of
Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who once said: “…all is flow”
We can use it to redesign everything because it gives us the keys to the
kingdom – its analogous power allows us to create theories of everything
through the the perception and modelling of nature’s patterns using the coded
geometry of mathematics
Architecture is a reality-check on Geometry, so we look forward to applying the
Asynsis principle to its theory and practice
26. Star power
Energy flows on Earth are all driven by the Sun’s
nuclear fusion, by gravity and electro-magnetic forces
Entropy is how these flows all seek equilibrium –
Extropy is anti-Entropy – it’s how these flows seek
the lowest energy, optimal, analogical path to that
equilibrium, one which also paradoxically, yields
greater flow force and usually, also complexity
27. Extropy = Qi
Constructal law says energy flows always seek more optimal currents with
greater force and power in order to reach (thermal) equilibrium more quickly,
often with consequent complexity increase – so let’s call it Extropy
To best compress this data animate/inanimate nature (just like software
engineers), follows the Asynsis-Constructal paradigm
We can therefore say that Constructal Law-Extropy is similar to the Chinese
concept of Qi and Asynsis is pattern or principle, analogous to Li – so both
together are concepts of optimised, concentrated energy, matter and information
flow, of sustainable resource flow and harmony with(in) nature via geometry,
exemplified by the Taiji – the Supreme Ultimate of the Song Dynasty neoConfucian philosopher Zhu Xi
28. Qi : Constructal | Li : Asynsis
Poetically, the Golden Ratio (Phi) is analogous to the geometric Li signature over time of
Extropy-Qi energy flow, as nature seeks to flow more easily, always with greater synergy,
power, force and often, consequent complexity. It too is analogous to the Greek Logos, to
our global science
Qi is associated with harmony with nature, health, vitality, well-being, prosperity and good
fortune – so epitomises human happiness and fulfilment itself in Chinese/East Asian culture
Li is was associated by the Song-dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi with principle and pattern,
exemplified by the Taiji – or Supreme Ultimate principle
So Phi-Qi-Li can hep build the transcultural bridge that will sell sustainability to Asia,
because it will win not only minds with the Logos, but crucially for Asia – also hearts with the
Taiji
Phi-Qi-Li: Heraclitian Logos (Information) + Mencian Qi-Li (Harmony) = Form follows Flow
29. Zhong-Phi (Golden Mean)
So both Chinese and European
philosophy have the concept of the
“Golden Mean”
Science and geometry confirms their
true meaning and relationship
30. Hong Kong Spin
Zhong-Phi observation wheel – landmark city-branding tower for
Hong Kong
Tribute to the natural and cultural Qi-Li of Hong Kong
Icon of sustainability: renewables powered, carbon-offset,
testbed for sustainable new materials, components,
technologies and systems
Now backed by UKTI as example of “high value – big ticket
British design in Asia”
31. West Kowloon Cultural District
Fusion Design – Wheel reinvented
Eiffel Tower + London Eye hybrid
One country – Two systems symbolism
Cultural district development catalyst
33. Phi/Asynsis - Icon for
Sustainable Development
Form follows Flow
More 4 Less
Optimal Structure
Tension & Compression
Golden ratio-referencing HKS is a potent new symbol for a new
geometric, sustainable design law of nature
It can also help promote the leadership of Hong Kong & China to drive
ESD & Sustainable Development in the whole Asia region
Designed by Asynsis (with Aedas) – Engineered by Arup
34. Geometry and Thermodynamics - Asynsis on Constructal Law: any system
(open or closed) spontaneously evolves modular form and order when
pushed far from equilibrium by external energy inputs, via innately
optimising, analogical, asymptotic, convergent flow geometries. Selection
pressures and resistances in fitness landscapes allow these systems,
especially when in self-organised critical, universal computation, phase
transition modes to adapt, develop resilience and evolve their internal and
networked complexity by design.
e^{i *pi} = -(2phi-root5)
e, i & pi, when reiterated, innately converge asymptotically towards the
optimal route to mathematical singularities and universal computation:
to phi, as seen in the Feigenbaum diagram paper cited above
This is analogous to the irreducibility of Giulio Tononi’s Phi (on
consciousness) and the evolutionary origins of modularity of Jeff Clune
(on artificial intelligence), which has been confirmed directly with them
35. TRANSCULTURAL SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN
We have learnt more about the architecture of the universe in space and now also in time: that architecture is
optimal, recursive & self-similar – so now we need to map it onto our civilisation
This knowledge teaches us that (self) design in nature is circular, diverse, economical and elegant, so if we
are wise, we must (self) design ourselves to follow in nature’s path, including celebrating cultural diversity by
evolving a vernacular-informed fusion sustainable transcultural design method to create distinctive genius
locii for the various differing cultures around the world. The best transcultural design is actively global and
passively local – why? Because cultural design identification is a form of cosmomimetic self-similarity – it’s
the Asynsis principle-Constructal design law of nature & culture in action
We know diversity and transculturalism is robust and optimally adaptive, because of the successful exemplar
of the English language, the European Lingua Franca, the transcultural global operating system, built by the
“daring, genius and creativity” of Great Britain, as celebrated at the 2012 Olympiad
36. Law of Nature: Law of Man
Why? Because to violate a design law of nature & culture is a
planetary act of hubris that will inevitably result in a similarscaled nemesis. It’s the law, the Logos – to defy it, is sheer folly
CL is a new law of nature and culture, so to violate such laws
invites questioning of our civilisational intelligence. For our
society to recognisably persist on this planet within a viable,
diverse and robust, creative, adaptive biosphere we must learn
to do better. And now, with CL – we know exactly how.
So to best preserve Nature (and ourselves - imbedded within
Gaia, the biosphere), we must learn to fully emulate her!
37. Time
…is on our side (for now)
…teaches us a new green law of nature is also a very
powerful dynamical law of beauty in art, design and
science
…reminds us this new green law of nature should
also become a new ( and beautiful) set of laws for
man so we can continue living in a viable, diverse
and thriving biosphere here on earth
38. Asynsis-Constructal – is everyday, everywhere, so…since More for Less
is the law, & since Form follows Flow, may your life and work forms
flow ever more freely and easily, with ever more reward for ever less
work!
Xie Xie - Thank You – Merci!
Geometry of Nature in Space (& optimal Time)
Cultural production: Design bridging Art & Science
Exemplar projects in Design and Society