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> later historians either accidentally or maliciously made so-called “phantom copies” of events and rulers, repeating them over and over again under different n
by bsedlm 4y ago
> later historians either accidentally or maliciously made so-called “phantom copies” of events and rulers, repeating them over and over again under different names. For example, he believes that the Peloponnesian Wars is just an earlier replication of the conflict between the Navarrese Company and the Duchies of Athens and Neopatras in the 14th century. All of our traditional history consists of mistakes such as this: the same events repeated multiple times under different names.
I think there's a deeper metaphysical concept at play here.
I think of it like echos (or "rhymes of history"); but it's also quite easy to grasp what it's being refered to by considering "fractals" from a rougher (layman) perspective.
There are events that seem to reverberate throurough reality. Some "louder" events reverberate more, other more localized events do not get echoed (or similarly repeated as much). and many localized events are themselves echos of older "louder" past events (? or maybe just events with a historical vantage point)
But this is not science, it's not even admissible in modern philosophy. it's at worse pseudo-something. at best a fictional artistic expression.
- macrolocal 4y agoGenerously speaking, recurring motifs are a feature of many complicated dynamical systems.