Concept
The two halves of one famous number
The worked case for appeal-versus-measurement. Leaf placement advancing a near-constant fraction of a turn is measurable and has a reason. The same proportion as a universal law of beauty is largely one nineteenth-century enthusiast's invention. Same number, one half survives checking. The test the book must also pass: which part of this was measured, and which part merely repeated?
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Four — The Ground UnderneathOn Belief Systems That Know They're BuiltEvery belief system is constructed. The difference is honesty about it — and the difference between infecting someone and inoculating them.