Douglass Hofstadter included Bach in his pulitzer-prize winning work, because of the FUGE. As a concept, this speaks to me through power dynamics and systems engineering. It’s Tensegrity in action, only in the Fuge, we need to create space more than we need to generate ideas.

Chinese Cosmology manages this challenge with Shen - magical/mystical entities that animate our tissue and guide sentience. Shen are not bound to spacetime as we are, and they’ve always occurred to me as song. When I designed Neuroaffective Somatics, one of the first things I did was build a symbolic language and create a cast of Shen.