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Where do we see recurrences in our lives? It seems like the first heart beat triggers an infinite inter-weaving of rhythms, schemes, patterns, sequences, cycles which are happening always in a repetitive, recursive dynamics. They are never quite identical, every new repetition has its own characteristics and differences, but the same shape is always there in the background appearing in a cyclic pattern of recursions. Let’s see: heart beat (pulse), rhythm in music and poetry, waves in the sea, symmetry of the left and right half of our body and of all things in nature, repetitions of genes throughout generations, repetition of the same electrons in the molecules of all material things, recurring decimals and geometric progression in mathematics, repetition of the seasons in nature, repetitive spinning of all planets and celestial objects in the Solar System, cyclical course of the history of civilizations and cultures, repetition of products in manufacturing and capitalist production, symmetries used in construction and architecture, repetition of satisfying everyday bodily needs, recurrent everyday social and cultural obligations of an individual, recurrences in languages (natural and cultural), repetition in the computer technologies, repetitio as mater studiorum, as a way of socio-cultural training, repetitions in mental judgment, similarities in religions, psycho-mental patterns of behaviour people are entrapped in … and so on and so on. Don’t you ever feel like every new face is only a repetition of the previous one (your own or a universal, archetypical one?), that every new place you visit is only a repetition of the previous one or that every new event in your life is a déjà-vu ... and so on in an infinite sequence. Mostly we can not differentiate what happened before or after, but we can’t escape the feeling that something is repeating in our conscience – as when we are dreaming that we are dreaming … It feels like we are faced with some internal law of natural and social life which has universal application and maybe a higher meaning. |