Jim Charter wrote:
> It is a compelling image in it's own right.
> 
> The idea of course has lots of pedigree
> Leonardo, famously, but I expect you knew that:
> http://www.mirabilissimeinvenzioni.com/ing_treatiseonpainting_ing.html

No, I did not know that! It pretty much strengthens my (not mine, 
evidently) basic theory of utilizing the creative subconscious. Thanks 
for that link!

> I am also reminded of, I think it was Darren New, posting once about 
> research into how music stimulates common brain regions in diverse human 
> groups.
> 
> I had a group of brain researchers in my taxi one night and I mentioned 
> that research/book to them.  I mentioned to one how it called up the 
> question for me of how someone even recognizes that something is music. 
> Surely it was cultural and context-driven.  His reponse was [to the best 
> I can recall] that certain research indicated that humans would reacted 
> to repeated fragments of sounds in the same way as to music.  But I 
> didn't get much detail, the conversation took that turn just as he was 
> getting out of the car.

This reminds me of the time I heard the Frog Chorus. Suddenly the random 
croaking of frogs fit together into a coherent melody.

> And, now that I am going, wasn't the virus in Snow Crash and visual 
> pattern?

What's that? I didn't understand it... :/

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