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utopia

The more control we poses over our environment and ourselves, the less we can accept either randomness or imperfection. Medical technologies might present solutions designed to assist an individual, yet they often represent an aspiration to order in the social sphere. It seems that the desire to abolish imperfections from the nano to the global [...]

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mathematical beauty

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” Aristotle
The human fascination with beauty and symmetry is rooted in our biology. We interpret the healthy as beautiful and are drawn to it from an evolutionary urge. Nature’s mathematical models of perfection, such as the golden ratio [...]

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