Snowflakes are coordinated structures in which all six arms are identical to each other despite developing in a fluctuating environment; the coordination cannot be fully explained by local environmental conditions, suggesting some form of internal resonance or field-based coordination within the crystal lattice.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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the thing is how come they're coordinated because you could say well the particular branches only are random to do with the immediate environment but then you'd have to say to explain the whole snowflake being the same the every arm of the growing snowflake was exactly the same on that Snowflake

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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