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concept:minimum-symmetry-breakingMinimum Symmetry Breaking
A principle from physics that when symmetry is broken, a system acts to preserve as many of its symmetries as possible, preserving as much structure as possible.
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- Structure-Preserving Transformationsassociated_withcitesChapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
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- The physics concept of reduction from larger to smaller symmetry groups, cited as consistent with but less comprehensive than the principle of unfolding wholeness
- Property where background and foreground tiles have identical shapes; observed in pmg2 patterns at the Alhambra.
- One of four key isometries; reflection across a line (mirror line or axis of reflection).
- Scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness proposed by Fields, Glazebrook & Levin (2021).
- Movement in a given direction through a given distance; all frieze patterns possess this symmetry by definition.
- Functional role of SOHMs, detecting symmetries in input to compress information.
- Experimental method using 35 black-and-white strips of 7 squares each (3 black, 4 white) with multiple cognitive tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition, subjective simplicity rating) to measure perceived coherence and correlate it with number of local symmetries