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Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
> On 9/13/2016 3:06 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/13/2016 9:30 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>> I'll try to make this brief..
> >>>
> >>> Math is an Invention, not a Discovery...arguement solved.
> >>>
> >>> Take for example:
> >>>
> >>> The "Mandelbrot set"
> >>
> >> Mandelbrot wanted to see what happens when the orbits of z=z^2+c stay
> >> small vs the ones that blow up into infinity. He got some of his
> >> colleagues to write a program to graph it, and out popped the Mandelbrot
> >> set. AFAICT, it was quite a beautiful discovery.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It is no different
> >>> than giving an Artist
> >>> cannabis
> >>> and music
> >>> and you get the same effect
> >>> in the mind of the Artist
> >>> that you get with the
> >>> "Mandelbrot set".
> >>
> >> I would like to see a stoned Artist plot the set by hand. Wouldn't it
> >> kill their buzz?
> >
> >
> > I didn't say "by hand", I wrote: "in the mind of the Artist"
> >
> >
> > "in the mind..."
> 
> Wow. Smoking weed and listing to music can create zooms of the set in
> your mind?

Well of course! If you do a google Image search for 1970's vintage posters during the turn-on generation,

you will see ' zooms of the set'
https://img1.etsystatic.com/043/0/9722227/il_fullxfull.636981077_rkpv.jpg
http://67.media.tumblr.com/febcd47fc00a46dc729f039f7a27ee49/tumblr_nb10gavOKy1sndzdgo1_1280.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/22/96740684_c3f1867877.jpg
http://www.trippystore.com/shop/images/items/005195.jpg



> 
> >
> >
> > That is where The "Mandelbrot set" exist Only, in the Mind.
> 
> Na. You can actually plot it, its not that hard and pretty
> straightforward. Have you ever tried to do it?



You can do it without using math...


cannabis
 and music
....
the math version is just....LSD with numbers.