the golden ratio is everywhere in nature

how people react to this for some reason: woah, cosmic confluence, man! we’re all connected!

the reality: there’s a strong survival pressure to grow Things That Don’t Line Up, and the best mathematical way to grow an arbitrary number of Things That Don’t Line Up happens to be {using the golden ratio}

@kasdeya

what people think: omg it's all lining up

the reality: omg everything is not lining up

@kasdeya the great cosmic influence of non-identically repeating patterns connects us all (/s)

@kasdeya arguably the pattern of this happening in so many places is itself a thing connecting everything

,,,but it is almost certainly not in the way they mean it, awa

@kasdeya “cosmic confluence, we’re all connected [the emergent patterns themselves Are the confluence]” (cool) versus “cosmic confluence [‘sign of something external consciously controlling things’]” (lame, lame, lame as hell)