Ambiguity in the Cultural Relationship Between Man and Natural Structures

Giuseppe Caglioti
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Giuseppe Caglioti: CESNEF, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare Politecnico di Milano

Chapter Chapter One in The Dynamics of Ambiguity, 1992, pp 11-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The relationship between man and nature is characterized by the instinct of conservation, inherent in the actions and manifestations of all living species, and by the transformations which take place in all natural structures. Everything flows, Heraclitus wrote twenty-five centuries ago: and those two words remain, rooted beside each other, almost as if they were beating out, with continuous symmetry, the rhythm of time and of all transformations that time begets. The conflict between conservation and transformation is settled dynamically with that “panta rei”, in an expression laden with ambiguity. Everything flows, in fact, but the fact that everything flows does not change. We realize this in contemplating the unvarying course of a river, indifferent to the passing of time, or the undertow, ever-changing in its regular, incessant rhythm.

Keywords: Critical Temperature; Rayleigh Number; Thermodynamic Equilibrium; Natural Structure; Heat Diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58080-2_2

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