An Asymmetric Fly in the Ointment of Perfect Symmetry

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“The material world may, at some level, lie beyond comprehension, ... No one has yet fathomed how the universe seems to know when it is being watched.”
— 23 October 2009 by Ivan Semeniuk, Waterloo

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“The fundamental meaning of everything is classification.”
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What is reality, really? It comprises a flotilla of asymmetric knots in a sea of symmetric fabric. The so-called "Big Bang" that ushered in our universe was a fluctuating transition through a knot-free fabric (i.e., a perfectly symmetric state).

Fluctuating from the sublime to the mundane, sentient beings seem to be a microcosm of the cosmos that senses "when it is being watched". And we are all perfectionists to varying degrees, on a scale of [0,1] (exclusive of the end points). The fundamental driving force of our existence is perfection of symmetry. One manifestation of such a driving force is the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

There exists a well-known personality type, namely "perfectionist". But as with everything else that "exists", that "classification" is relative. Those classified as perfectionists are just more nearly perfectionistic than others.

I have often been told that I am a perfectionist. I suppose I am, recognizing that everyone else is too, to a greater or lesser degree. Some of my perfectionist inclinations are akin to what some psychologists label as Tourette syndrome.

If, for example, my dinner napkin is not folded "symmetrically", I will re-fold it before I begin eating. You can set your clock to it, assuming you are into time.

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