Fogestalt | Symbolic entities Summation of elements Atmospheric unification |
G
estalt is a word of German origin for "form", usually used in a context relative to evaluating an organized whole as greater than the sum of the individual parts. A less common and more esoteric definition concerns synoptic meteorology as a complex of weather elements occurring in a familiar form. Thus an example of such a gestalt would be a cold or warm front and its associated pattern of hydrodynamical or thermodynamical characteristics. When confronted by fog conditions, I like to associate and contemplate both gestalt concepts.
“There are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clear-cut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.” - Max Wertheimer
