Wonders of Nature

Van Gogh’s The Starry Night.  wikipedia W hat is it about Van Gogh's portrayal of the night sky from his east facing window of the the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum that draws the eye and makes us wonder?  For me it is how the stylized and abstract dynamic swirls and flows capture the patterns found in nature. Was he imagining the recently discovered spiral nature of galaxies depicted in the science literature of the times, or remembering the way water swirled in a pond near his childhood home? T hese words I am typing and seeing on the screen, they puzzle me, just like "The Starry Night." I mean, I get the ones and zeros, the electrical aspect of it. I understand the photons eminating from the screen to my eyes. Somehow my brain processes it and that turns to meaning, as does Van Gogh's painting. What is it about meaning? In this post I wonder about the nature of meaning.  I wonder about wonder, and that takes me back to the phenomenon of informat...