A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia | Terry Moore | TED

The man delivered a wholesome lecture in 6 minutes with such articulateness. His delivery and pace made me watch it again.

Pretty shapes make brain happy

Whilst in a psychedelic trip I was astounded to realize that everything I looked at was made up of fractal sacred geometry. It was so beautiful it reduced me to tears and am beginning to realize that there must me something far deeper and less understood about these beautiful designs. My quest for the truth continues.

the first internet discussion I've seen in years where everyone is delighted and kind to each other... because of a wonderful lecture

The Penrose pattern is an illustration of some of the fundamentals of Chaos theory. The gist is that there are things around us that seem disordered or chaotic, but if one could get to the origin of the phenomenon, they would discover a very simple, orderly set of seemingly fundamental or even universal rules which set it in motion and can reproduce the phenomenon. In this case, while the pattern may never repeat itself, it must start with those two initial shapes.

I love how humans are naturally attuned to this "implicate order" through aesthetic beauty rather than explicit knowledge. It's crazy that every culture turns to math and geometry because everyone feels the hidden truth it can convey.

It is interesting to think that when one is under the influence of psychedelics, parts of the brain that never have anything to do with each other connect or “unify”. And the hallucinations under the eyelids can be some of the most intricate, complex, and beautiful patterning experienced.

glad to see acknowledgement of ancient wisdom in the the mainstream, don't get to see it often enough

very rarely do i hear someone speak not only so articulately but with such profundity behind each statement. this speech was fantastic; a genuine treat to listen to. thank you very much terry.

As a proud Uzbekistani 🇺🇿, I watched this Ted talk with a great fascination about my ancestors …

This presentation is of another level! What a great way to start your day by listening to this lecture! The morning is great

As an artist, and teacher, I started drawing lessons by pointing out that everything you want to draw boils down to just two types of lines-straight and curved. Absolutely every shape, object, pattern, etc-is just a combination and repetition of these two lines. It gets complex when these two lines get thickened, broken, colored….but you get the idea. Fun.

I love TED for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that it allows me to explore the world. On a trip to Uzbekistan, I was able to observe that beautiful pattern at a madrasa that I had never seen before. I was in awe of the intricate detail and was inspired by the craftsmanship that went into creating it, but now TED tells me what it was and what it mean.

This talk attracted me immediately because of my profile photo, which I've been using for a long time. I took it in Spain while visiting some famous attraction whose name I no longer recall, but the beauty and craftsmanship of this floor spoke to me, as it undoubtedly spoke to others back then and still does to this day.

Great presentation! I’ve always thought that Plato’s concept of “anamnesis” related to this too - the idea that there are things we are born knowing, forget as children, then educate ourselves to remember. From Bohm’s implicate order to sacred geometry and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life we see briefly in this video, there is a breadth of ideas we humans seem to keep re-discovering through the ages. And Schrödinger, of course, was a lifelong student and active promoter of Eastern mysticism and the Vedanta, seeing connections to the quantum world he was helping to reveal.

I always get excited to see the same patterns and architectural styles repeated throughout millennia, because it reminds me that humanity all came from one place and we all still have so much in common. I appreciate differences, but I celebrate the commonalities that remind us we're all related. ❤

The most pleasing thing about such patterns is exactly the hint of underlying (overarching?) depth and order. I think most people can sense it. Even if they can't put in words, nor even consciously recognize that their brains are being tickled by something just below the surface.

For the same reason I think that if/when we discover and interact with alien civilizations, we will also find out that they play Tetris too. Simple yet elegant rules that lead to emergent beauty apply to both these patterns and to Tetris.

As a landscaper this fascinated me, cheers for the upload 👍

This guy really has a knack with language, and objectively provokes quite a bit of unifying ideology in just a few minutes. Bravo, man!