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I am just watching a plant while thinking of what to write about today. I was contemplating to write about palmistry, my experiences living a life in complete faith and dealing with the mental battles that occurred during that time due to my hunger and feeling of being trapped. But during my thought process I observed a plant and wondered how it grows. A friend wanted me to go horse riding, but I am scared of horses. I know I would benefit a lot, but yet I refuse to dive into it. She asked me many times yet I never went. Now, she said it is ok if you don't want and just left. Now I feel bad. Not because I didn't do it, I think I could be fine without having ever established a deep relationships to horses. But more because she made an impression of giving up on me. Which makes absolute sense. I just dislike the feeling of it. So I often please people and disrespect my own boundaries in doing so, because I enjoy to avoid this feeling of being me and truly me and disappointing others. Now as a fun fact, this (and here we now could go into palmistry) is one of the life lessons written in my hands. You might think it is all but witchcraft and non sense, but you'd be surprised by the accuracy a good reader can give you about yourself that might even be better than your own explanation about yourself. But we can talk about that another day. I want to talk about that plant. 

I mean, couldn't you sit here and wonder for I don't know, 30 minutes, why a plant grows and why it grows in a certain way? So here I am looking for something to write about and saw that plant and thought: what would someone say, if the only thing he could talk about, would be that plant. Well, let's try it out. 

Ah, I think it is just amazing how plants just grow. Think of it: there is a seed, there might be some soil (as sometimes they even grow in bricks and in places no one would expect nature to find a way to grow and express itself), some water, sunlight I guess, and boom, over time there is a plant. But how is this done? There were scientists (probably still is) that tried to answer that and they found some really interesting things. Now you all might have heard of the Fibonacci Sequence or the Golden Ration, maybe even about the number Phi? I am sure somewhere you crossed it and if not, so you have certainly enjoyed its appearance in your fiancé's face, your own hand or the pine cone without knowing it. Or have you ever asked yourself why some people appear pretty and others not or why we appreciate certain images, or in this case plants? Well, it turns out that the scientists figured out that plants have a specific pattern that they imitate in their growing. They follow a certain path, a mathematical rule. They use a certain pattern so the leaves of a plant get all the best possible amount of light and sunshine in order to grow. Seed in a sunflower grow in the same pattern as does a pineapple and a shell of a snail. I do not know the reasons for them to do it the same way, yet it seems a reoccurring pattern that we can see everywhere. So that is what my first thought was when I watched that plant grow: I was checking if it grew in a certain pattern. And it does actually. Why I don't know in this case, but it for sure is aesthetic. Going back to the scientists. They went beyond just a simple pattern of 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-34-55-(?) or a golden ratio between parts of anything in nature, or phi - being 1.816... (which is the ratio between the numbers before when you keep going in the fibonacci sequence) - which is a number that never and nor repeats itself, which is where I believe lies the true miracle of nature. But more later. So these scientists found out that plants actually grow after a specific algorithm and they even found ways to express the algorithm in computer programs that would then draw the plants. Let that sink in. So does the seed hold some sort of a blue print of that algorithm? And does the algorithm hold any information about how water, weather and life around the plant influence it? The seed somehow must have information about what the plant can expect. Think of a desert rose that can dry out and roll all over the desert, only to blossom again when hitting water. The seed must know about that, it must be prepared for that. I find it highly fascinating that stuff like that works, but I find it just as cool that scientists find a language that can express the pattern a plant has in order to grow. And yet, there is a certain part in the equation that keeps out the fact that a plant grows always in the same way, as fast as any other one of its species, or can't adapt over time to the changes in its environment (check succulents). Maybe it is the mystery of nature itself, that it grows after a pattern that can be expressed but yet holds a part of randomness within its expectation range. Like every tomato plant grows and looks very similar, there is a pattern, yet, there is always a certain randomness within this growth pattern. Is it because the pattern they grow after is a number that never ends and never repeats itself and thus holds a part of unpredictability to it, even though we can calculate it? It is like an infinite number yet describes everything in the universe, from stars, to galaxies, to your fingers, the ratio of your head to your torso, the plants and their leaves, and so on. And our eyes perceive that number as beautiful, even though we can never fully express the number which is expressed in what we perceive as beautiful. I find that highly amusing in a way. 

For some reason nature chooses that pattern, be it strength, stability, or probably efficiency or just a way to make sure everything has the best way possible to survive. A pattern, that makes sure that nothing really repeats exactly but looks very similar, distributes everything perfectly and makes sure it holds itself in balance. Would our body work if we wouldn't be full of a golden ratio? Why do our heads not become bigger and bigger, the more we know? 

Can you grasp the intelligence that is behind every plant, animal, leave, shell, galaxy, see creature, even you? Where does it come from and did someone create it like that? Is that how some call it, GODs fingerprint? Do we live in a programmed universe - a simulation? And why do we perceive it as beautiful? In order to find our way through this simulation and see what is made by GOD? 

Mathematics after all seems more like Philosophy than Philosophy itself.

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