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Harmonic resonance is the only physical principles that exhibits so many of those enigmatic holistic Gestalt properties of perception.
Emergence
Standing waves are the ultimate emergent phenomenon families of patterns of patterns emerge spontaneously from simple interactions across a homogeneous medium.
Reification
Standing waves automatically perform reification, filling-in a complete spatial pattern for every component waveform.
Multistability
Standing waves also exhibit multistability, as seen in a musical instrument like a bugle.
Invariance
The greatest promise of harmonic resonance involves the issue of invariance. Like the neural receptive field, the standing wave represents a spatial pattern. Unlike the neural receptive field, the standing wave is not a rigid template. Like Köhler's electric fields, standing waves are not anchored to the tissue of the brain.
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