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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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Stewart, John E. “The direction of evolution: the rise of cooperative organization.” Biosystems 123 (2014): 27-36.


Living After Gluttony

Follow the embryo after gluttonous growth.

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Structure After Gluttony

Post-gluttonous structure.

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Go backward to Chapter Three – Balance Is Circular
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