One of these days I will expound further on the Leaky Triangle
   notion; I don't know if it is ideal, but I'm not searching for
   an ideal, but a mental metaphor that can brng together a
   multitude of diverse things into a a single metaphor, allowing
   my mind's computational machinery to compress vast amounts of
   knowledge into a much tighter compression ratio, affording my
   mind more room for different, yet unknown by me, metaphors of
   complexity. (and room for the nick-pickity details that ppl
   often spend lifetimes debating about). >.< was an image that I
   kept writing down in my notes.* It serves a number of things;
   started out as "the focal point" - the > is the inner mind, the
   < is the outside world.* The . is what's inbetween. The . is
   what I was interested it; the fuzziness that occurs when
   something is FLIPPING when going from convex to concave (when
   looking in a magnifying mirror for example). Loops became
   prominent.* Then I discovered "Double Loop Learning" - and I saw
   that loop in everything - from patented systems, to various
   methods of learning and knowledge discovery; (both scientific
   and engineering methods had theirs); I saw it in all kinds of
   iterative modes; I saw it in the Triode,... so many places it
   showed up; the double loop was everywhere. I even collected some
   hastily drawn together notes and visualizations on
   [1]http://system-of-systems.com/ - not as conclusions, but
   capturing some bits of the leaky triangle for myself; yet
   publically; I allowed myself to get blasted on physics-forum so
   i could learn from the barrage of criticism that I knew I would
   receive; and I'm grateful for it.* [development stopped after my
   thrill of finding Wolfram; making a grand announcement that
   "I've found it!" and then ... disappointment when I understood
   the limitations of Cellular Autonoma.* I, yet again, had stopped
   too soon. Embodied Cognition has had the greatest holding power
   for me; Like with other things, I seek to find out where it
   falls apart, as I dislike the disappointment I feel when I find
   "it" - the something that I can champion; and then realize its
   fatal flaws. It's a hard one; it puts into question how we've
   been taught to think about ourselves since Aristotle and even
   Plato; the very NATURE of "what is an ideal?" and its inherent
   flaws goes into question; and; actually puts us where we are:
   human beings living on a planet, with fascinating machinery for
   computations; but we are not just our computational machinery.
   Yes, taking notes of my every thought as it passes; it is so
   revealing; it is not tied down to ANY external 'thing' BUT is
   ascertaining something NO ONE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE CAN DO: "What
   am I thinking RIGHT NOW, in this 6 second frame before the
   thought disappears?" "How is it significant to me?" "How does it
   tie into EVERYTHING I've ever known and can recall; and
   everything I can PROJECT for a set of FUTURE CONDITIONAL
   EXPECTATIONS; based on a collection of deep past knowledge? In
   other words: my perspective. Where my NEAR PAST (what I was just
   thinking about a few seconds ago) is compared with my DEEP PAST.
   And... one revelation that works for me: The FUTURE is but our
   past, REFLECTED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.* Because: If you take
   a timeline of our thoughts, we are ALWAYS in the past. Even the
   present moment can only compare a past thought; even a very near
   past thought.*

References

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   1. http://system-of-systems.com/