The Shape of Global Peace: Chapter Four – Seeing Circularly

SPOILER ALERT: The featured image is from the movie “Arrival.” The delightful surprise ending is examined in this chapter.

Seeing Circularly Portrayed in Art

600 BC Lau Tzu writes the Tao Te Ching an algorithm for living based on seeing circularly.
1999 Walter J. Freeman publishes measurements and analysis suggesting that our brains primarily process in circular time.
2008 the movie Red Cliff based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (AD 208–209) debuted feature a winning battle strategy because of an ability to see circularly.
2014 the movie The Admiral debuts based on historical Battle of Myeongnyang (October 26, 1597) debuted featuring a winning battle strategy because of an ability to predict future events from seeing circularly.
2017 Arrival debuts featuring a winning strategy because of an ability to predict future events from seeing circularly.

Evolution’s Universal Repeating Pattern (URP): Circles within Circles

Life catches up to art as we see there is a “point” to evolution. It is the creation of increasingly diversified and and integrated cooperative systems. This trajectory can be graphically illustrated as circles within circles as a universally repeating pattern (URP).

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