{"id":30565,"date":"2013-12-31T22:44:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T22:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30565"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T22:44:28","slug":"spirals-plus-ca-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30565","title":{"rendered":"Spirals: plus \u00e7a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a striking image from the Cassini probe, a &#8220;spiral&#8221; staircase ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Spirals, which are close to concentric circles and close to ellipses, can also be &#8220;squared&#8221; or &#8220;oblonged&#8221; &#8212; pattern recognition is not always neat in its observation of definitions, and this can as easily be a cognitive feature as a bug:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-plus-ca-change.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-plus-ca-change.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC plus ca change\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-plus-ca-change.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-plus-ca-change-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides, <strong>Plus \u00e7a change, plus c&#8217;est la m\u00eame chose<\/strong> could almost be the motto for pattern recognition, emphasizing the naturally cross-disciplinary, cross-silo nature of analogical cognitive strategies.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The top panel image is of the North Pole of Saturn, as recently captured by NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Cassini<\/a> mission.  As blog-friend <strong>Bryan Alexander<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/infocult.typepad.com\/infocult\/2013\/12\/saturn-stares-back-at-you.html\">notes at Infocult<\/a>, NASA says of this image, which it calls <strong>The Maelstrom:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vortex at Saturn&#8217;s north pole &#8212; seen here in the infrared &#8212; takes on the menacing look of something from the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a striking image from the Cassini probe, a &#8220;spiral&#8221; staircase ] . Spirals, which are close to concentric circles and close to ellipses, can also be &#8220;squared&#8221; or &#8220;oblonged&#8221; &#8212; pattern recognition is not always neat in its observation of definitions, and this can as easily be a cognitive feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,859,733,750,626,32,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-form","category-nasa","category-pattern-language","category-patterns","category-science","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30576,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565\/revisions\/30576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}