Or think of it this way:

[wolven7]

If I throw a ball in a measured way, with measured force, then I can know where it will go, and what it will do, with a certain (high) degree of probability. If, however, there are a few unknown macroscopic irregularities on the ball's surface, then my knowledge probaility goes down.

Now say it his one of the irregularities. It bounces wild, and crashes into a China cabinet, where, if it hits a certain way, it will pop the ball. But if it hits another way, the ball continues its destructive bounce. I know, now the measurements it would take to make to ball behave a certain way, because I know less about how the ball is going to behave. My total information remains the same, but the context in which I can apply it shifts.

If we can constantly shift back and forth between the areas of information, entropy, and measurement, we can apply our knowledge and increase our over-all conception, in a never-ending stream.

However, the more we do this, the more we expand the universe, the more there is to know.

I keep having dreams about having to hurt or kill people, and mech_angel says I was making growly noises, in my sleep, last night...

I don't know what's up with that.

Word of the Day: Alarm

Comments

[kuranes.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Jorge Luis Borges?

[kuranes.livejournal.com]

Well, that's actually what I just finished reading right now (being the first half of Ficciones) but I was going to say you should read him - it makes the ideas in House of Leaves seem a lot less original.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I figured that was actually kind of the point of of Leaves.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

No, but The Garden of Forking Paths is thought by many to be the inspiration for the many-worlds formulation of quantum mechanics.

Concept piece

[karishi.livejournal.com]

Read the story I just sent you. If you feel the need to hit me, afterward, I'll understand, but read it.

Re: Concept piece

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Nicely paradoxed.