Design defined as the set of organizing principles that result in purposive systems as distinct from random noise, is to my mind the mysterious creative force behind the universe.
Someday when someone cracks the theory of everything, it is possible that at it's ticking heart will be an entity that crystallizes the difference between 'undesign' and design. Simply put design is why anything forms out of the great nothingness of 'undesign'.
The truth of the assertion can come from surprising quarters. You would think that poltical dynasties are accidents of history but dig a little deep and one can hypothesize a startlingly simple design that makes the success of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty inevitable.
In a society caught in a complex net of caste and regional identities, the creation of a famiily that arising from a displaced community shorns itself of all regional and caste identities through two generations of extramural marriage is a masterstroke in the design of enduring dynasty,
At a deeper level add generic traits that promote an easy perception of grace and you have multi-layered design reinforcing resonance, dampening dissonance.
Issac Assimov in his seminal science fiction work - The Foundation Series - invented a science called Psychohistory. Using Psychohistory the founding fathers of an uber advanced civilization called the Foundation predicted moments of civilizational crisis thousands of years into the future and even left recordings of advice on how to tackle each crisis.!
Those guys cracked the design of their universe.
For ordinary folks like us even a peripheral awareness of the importance of design can, I believe, increase the frequency of those terribly satisfying aha moments of intuition.
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