So I was walking down the street, enjoying the sun out, watching houses, birds, people, the clear blue sky, buildings, etc., when suddenly a thought hit me so hard that I stopped walking and I just stood there, a bit freaked out.
There is repetition everywhere.
This tree is basically a repetition of that other tree, this bench is a rough copy of that bench, that cloud is more or less a duplication of that other cloud up ahead, this house is practically identical to that other house, this person over here is similar to that person over there, this car is almost the same as that car, this bird looks like that bird, this sidewalk is no different from the other sidewalk, so on and so on, etc., etc.
Why is it that there is sameness in the world rather than pure dissimilarity, pure difference? Sure, we humans have the habit of keeping things the same, but when you look at nature, there is incredible amounts of repetition there too.
What is the principle of nature responsible for the ubiquity of sameness? Where does it come from? How is it possible? And, furthermore, is this principle itself subject to its own repetition?
Sameness and same-making seems like an inescapable feature of the fabric of reality.
NeoGAF what answers do you have to these puzzling questions?
