Trees / Discussions

Are we drawn to trees because our minds know that our brain structures are tree-shaped?

Do these signatures of our internal informational systems keep emerging in symbols of our deepest religious impulses because they are what nineteenth-century anthropologist Adolf Bastian called Elementargedanken - "elementary ideas" that are hardwired into our brains? Our nervous systems are shaped like trees, and so are rivers, capillaries, data structures, probability worlds, solution spaces, chess games, and chain reactions. Our ancestors lived in trees, not too long ago. It's no wonder that Sakyamuni sat under one when he was ready to awaken...


Interesting article : The Shape of the Universe
www.geocities.com/jiji_muge/shape.html#N1