What is the notion of structure in psychic process? Part of structure consists of adequate explanations of why things are the way they are and how they came to be. In religious thought, this is termed cosmology and cosmogony. Of particular interest in this blog is the question of how math might be of aid in structuring the psyche in ways that psychological symbols might not be able to.
Since explanation often comes from reflection, aspects of math that promote reflection seem specially important. Some of this comes from breaking apart an issue and asking what are the limits and implications of it. The graphs of circulant matrices (see post on the Tao) are like broken mandalas whose pieces are able to catch the reflections of many different issues.
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