A Collection of Interesting Structures

This is an article summarizing some interesting structures that I have discovered in my daily life.

[Interesting Structure 1]

What is the longest name in the world?

People say that Picasso's real name is actually very long. There is also a rakugo story called Jugemu about a boy whose name is too long.

Those names can eventually be finished, but I thought that if there were a longest name in the world, it might be something that continues infinitely without end.

For example, a name like Pi.

There are people with numbers in their names, like Ichiro or Jiro, but if someone had Pi as the numerical part of their name, it seems like a situation would arise where they could never reach the 'ro' part when introducing themselves, and they would continue saying their name forever.

I thought that was a very strange and interesting structure.

There is an infinite structure inside a name. It is very mysterious.

I wondered if God or aliens have names, perhaps those names are made of higher-order concepts that continue for eternity. It was a discovery that made me think about various things like that.

[Interesting Structure 2]

Do shirts wear clothes too?

We might put on a jacket or layer clothes, but excluding those scenes, shirts are always naked.

The shirt itself, which exists to cover nakedness, is always naked.

I thought this structure was somehow very strange.

All clothing is made with this structure.

Shoes themselves don't wear shoes, and hats don't wear hats. Everyone does not receive the benefits of the same thing as themselves.

What if we were to apply this to us humans?

A skilled massage therapist, no matter how much they hone their craft, cannot receive their own massage, and a charismatic hairstylist cannot cut their own hair from behind.

A magician cannot be surprised by their own magic, and a super popular idol who is incredibly sought after cannot marry themselves.

The only person who cannot receive the value emitted by oneself is oneself.

Perhaps we humans, or rather this entire world, might be built upon this mysterious structure.

[Interesting Structure #3]

What if a light developed a sense of self?

Since a light is emitting light itself, I thought that the light might not know what darkness is.

A structure that is even more 'the darkest place is under the lighthouse' than the original saying.

In other words, 'the lighthouse knows no darkness'.

Of course, I think it knows the darkness of the scenery under the lighthouse or in places away from itself. But as for what true darkness is like, there is no way for the light to know. Because it is shining itself.

This structure feels like it is teaching us that 'one cannot experience a world where one is absent'.

In life, there is always oneself, and no one can experience a time when they are not there.

Perhaps the self is like a light for perceiving this world. It made me think about that for a moment.

[Interesting Structure #4]

Maybe UFOs are actually floating in the sky all the time.

The theory is that we humans just don't notice them, but they are actually observing Earth all the time by taking the form of birds, clouds, or flying balloons.

After all, it seems like UFOs are made of incredibly unknown technology, don't you think?

Whether they are alien spacecraft, state-of-the-art fighter jets, or flying life forms, there are many types of UFOs, but in any case, if they were camouflaged as clouds or birds, it seems like we would never notice them.

If they are alien spacecraft, they've come from a distant star, so I think camouflaging themselves as something else would be a piece of cake.

Sometimes they might descend to the ground all at once by camouflaging as rain, or other times they might camouflage as a rainbow to grab humanity's attention. I've thought about whether they might be doing things like that.

I think there are quite a few structures in the world like everyone is looking at it but doesn't notice it.

I also had a moment today where I was looking for my glasses while wearing them, and I had the chance to tell myself, "I'm wearing them!" It's surprisingly hard to notice the existence of things that are too obvious like this.

There might be many things around you too that are things you are looking at but haven't noticed.

When you think about it that way, doesn't it make you a little excited?

[Something Interesting Structure 5]

I want to go to the bathroom, but I also want to keep sleeping!

I tried drawing a picture of what I felt at that time.

I think there are quite a few situations in daily life where you want to split your body in two, like wanting to go to the bathroom while sleeping.

Like when you want to walk while playing a video game, or when you want to listen to quiet music while using a hair dryer.

I thought it would be convenient if we could make our bodies wireless when we encounter such situations.

Phones, computers, and many other things have already switched from wired to wireless, haven't they? So, while feeling the urge to urinate, I suddenly thought that perhaps we humans should also start evolving toward becoming wireless.

Well, smartphones have already made our voices wireless, haven't they?
Since we can convey our voices to people far away through phones and social media, you could say that a smartphone is a device that makes your mouth wireless.

A remote control is also a tool for pressing buttons on appliances far away, so it could be said that it makes your fingers wireless.

Thinking about it that way, maybe "making the body wireless" is already quite advanced.

[Interesting Structure 6]

What if the inside of a monster costume was actually a real monster?

Monsters in special effects movies actually have people inside them, right?

But I thought it would be interesting if what was inside wasn't a person, but a monster, blurring the line between reality and fiction.

"Inside the costume, there is the real thing."

Try to remember the mascot characters walking around in an amusement park.
We understand that they are costumes, but we intentionally try to forget that fact, don't we?

I think everyone does this "intentional forgetting" when enjoying fiction, but if the person inside the costume wasn't a human, but the character themselves, wouldn't that feel very strange?

Besides, if the real thing were inside the costume, there would be a certain romance to that, wouldn't there?

It's scary to think that the people working in a haunted house might actually be "real monsters" instead of humans.
Like a real monster pretending to be a human wearing monster makeup.

Like this, I thought the structure of the real thing pretending to be a fake was very interesting.

Perhaps this structure is lurking all around us as well.

[Some Interesting Structure 7]

How tall is a ruler?

A 15cm ruler is 15cm tall, and a 30cm ruler is 30cm tall. Rulers don't need to go out of their way to measure their own height.
Because they are rulers themselves.

So, if a 30cm ruler grows and gets taller, how many centimeters will it be?

That sounds like it could get a bit complicated.


A 30cm ruler stays 30cm even when it grows.
The reason is that the markings remain the same.

It's strange, isn't it?
Even though it's getting taller, the length never changes.

In the village where 30cm rulers live, there must be 30cm rulers of all different lengths.

If a ruler grows taller, this funny phenomenon occurs.
That's why the rulers sold at stationery stores are made of materials that ensure their length doesn't change.

[Some Interesting Structure 8]

What if you were made of money?

In the past, bartering was the norm, but with the invention of money as a measure of value, we became able to obtain anything we want by paying for it.

Money is a very convenient system.


However, to obtain that money, you need to perform some kind of action to earn it, such as working, investing, or buying a lottery ticket.

Bartering through goods has disappeared, but perhaps the invention of money has created the hassle of having to earn it.

Thinking about it that way, that in itself is a bit of a nuisance, isn't it?

In that case, why don't we just become money ourselves?

If you were money, you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of earning it.
Furthermore, you wouldn't need to possess money. You wouldn't have to save it in a bank or carry it around in a wallet, so you would be very light on your feet.

However, there are some inconveniences to becoming money yourself.
That is, whenever you want something, you have to exchange yourself for that desired item.

For example, when you are thirsty and want a drink.

Since you have to offer yourself up to buy the drink, the moment you get it, you are no longer your own person.

That would defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it?

And so, I have realized that it is better not to invent a system that turns yourself into money.

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