Ideas are incredible things, their workings so complex it is hard to even think about them.
Metaphors always help to encapsulate and organize vast stores of information: the sciences tell us of dependable natural laws and one can infer that a common elemental logic underlies the expansion and contraction of all life in space, including ideas, which is why metaphors always seem to appeal intuitively anyways. Perhaps they are hinting on genuine parallels.
But what's this metaphor then? So, like an idea, the blueprint of a tree is contained in its seed, but it is not the whole of the tree that exists as a potential in its seed. The seed can be the beginning and the end, which is only mere logical categorization anyways. From the seed, the tree flows with a logic of its own out into its environment, taking shape both in accordance with its blueprint and the contextual demands of the environment itself, changing the tree in the process, which then spreads new seeds of its transformed self, so that the process can begin anew.
And so ideas as seeds bear their own fruit, as George Clinton noted, and their fruit grow far beyond their original form, producing new seeds in turn, while the old fruit rot and die.
Why then, this expansion and contraction? Why must such a duality arise from one? What is the point? As Wayne Coyne asked, "What is love and what is hate, and why does it matter?"
