Fractal Objects & Life

Few weeks ago, I went to Marriott Marquis Hotel's bar in Times Square which was pretty interesting with a very smart friend. I've told him that the hotel reminds me a movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently I wasn't the only one who thinks the Marriott Hotel in New York designed to create a future image and my friend was also agreeing with me.

A view from Marriott Marquis Hotel's high-tech elevators.

As I remember, I loved that movie because it happens in the future & they travel to Mars & everything is electronic & mechanic. I liked that movie not because of these definition but I believe the future is going to be like that, and that movie was pretty realistic. Here is one example: I was adding like 100 photos to my facebook, and it automatically makes suggestions to tag people in my 960 friend list in seconds. Isn't that scary? What kind of future is for us? I think the answer is in this extremely unbelievable science fiction books or movies. Well you can find my answer simple, but if we look at history, e.g Jules Verne, of course nobody was believing of his stories, flying baloons with people, machine goes under the sea!

The limit of what people can do, or how the future is going to be, is the human mind: if someone-anyone can think anything, that is quite possible to happen. That's why I'm scared ghosts & monsters that probably they are real, too.

In this hotel there were this "cheesy" waterfalls. They were cheesy but the only thing which makes people relax and neutral was this waterfalls. That brought us to another topic: why people feel more relax and more alive when they are in nature. I learned that human beings feel more relaxed to see, touch or hear things which is "fractal". A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity (wikipedia). This mechanism was working 300 years ago to protect ourself in the forest where everywhere is green & grass and then you suddenly realize the danger appears like a lion! Hmm, I can hear your question: what about the danger is green, too, like a snake? Good question! There is only 2 things I can say now:

1- Whatever the reasons we like fractal things are, we like to be in nature. Waterfalls, plants, trees, grass, sand, sun; this things make us relax & calm & relief.

2- If you're not sure about this fractal thesis, read here. I like the idea that we like ocean waves, heart beat, and more over nature like it!

And this fractal idea and the connection to our feelings remind me about a book I've read years ago. It was probably a personal development book and was saying that Japanese people listen the water sound whenever they have shower. They listen the water comes from their head, through their whole body till the feet and then sink. And they thank for the life itself and everything. After reading that, I practiced that, too. Now it's one of my basic simple meditation: I also add this little picture that the water goes through sink via pipes to the underground and rivers and ocean or sea. If you're sad, this feeling will go with the water. If you're happy, it goes, too. You neutralize.

The connection with materials makes us addicted to the world, but keeps us away from life itself. 

We think we are happy when we buy a car.. Or even every single dress we buy.. (Well, that makes me really happy! Just for that single time period?) Shower, sea, ocean, laying on a grass make us relief that we forget the material world.