¶ Pattern Generalization (1)
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Pattern Generalization:
“Out of multi-overlaid experience patternings there sometimes emerges an awareness of what we may call a coincidence pattern–a localized thickening of points. These emergent patterns of frequency congruences and concentrations display a unique configuration-integrity which has up to now been so dilute in any one experience as to be only invisibly common to many differentiated or special experiences, e.g., a pack of one hundred 4-inch by 5-inch file cards each riddled with hundreds of different sized small holes. Each card appears to be chaotically patterned with holes. However, when the cards are stacked with edges aligned three holes in each card are vertically aligned; all others are obscured by blank spaces on one card or another. A triangular pattern relationship of the light coming through three tubes in the stack of cards is now lucidly conceptual. To such persistently emergent, uniquely mutual, coincidence-patterning relationships as the same triangle array of holes in each and every card we may apply the term ‘pattern generalization’ as used in a mathematical sense, in contradistinction to the word ‘generalization’ as used in the literary sense. The latter often means a too-ambitious subject range which consequently permits only superficial considerations of any specific case data.”
¶ Citations
- INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.118-119, 1959
