Open Ended Architecture
Feb. 21st, 2011 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I am always thinking about Isomorphism. I am thinking about the ways in which the things that you know and understand can be mapped onto the other things with which you are presented, every day. See, I can tell you that you can apply to other fields the perspectives and understandings which you gain when you learn a skill, but that doesn't actually show you the How of learning the contours and corners of a thing. You have to experience it.
I can put a list together, for you, of things which can help you see the threshold of isomorphic, analogy-based conception; things which allow you to see how one thing is like and in a sense is another thing. I can tell you to read Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, and "The Garden of Forking Paths," and House of Leaves, and The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Vellum and Ink, and American Gods, and Ender's Game, and The Golden Bough, and the writings of Heraclitus, ande many, many other things beisdes, and you'd probably ask me why most of them were fiction. Or maybe you wouldn't, which would be good.
Everything we read, every thing we encounter, has principles and rules which we can use to open up nwe avenues of thought, to create new portals of understanding. We have the potential to change the way we think in fundamental and complex ways, or maybe in tiny and subtle ways, but the things that we can do are directly related to the kinds of passageways of conception which we allow ourselves to enter, and those can be intentionally shaped by the types of input we choose to take in.
True, some things are meant to be themselves and only themselves, and are not meant to be mapped on to other things, but everything has lessons.
Anything can be universalised. The real question is, "What use is there in doing so?"
I can put a list together, for you, of things which can help you see the threshold of isomorphic, analogy-based conception; things which allow you to see how one thing is like and in a sense is another thing. I can tell you to read Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, and "The Garden of Forking Paths," and House of Leaves, and The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Vellum and Ink, and American Gods, and Ender's Game, and The Golden Bough, and the writings of Heraclitus, ande many, many other things beisdes, and you'd probably ask me why most of them were fiction. Or maybe you wouldn't, which would be good.
Everything we read, every thing we encounter, has principles and rules which we can use to open up nwe avenues of thought, to create new portals of understanding. We have the potential to change the way we think in fundamental and complex ways, or maybe in tiny and subtle ways, but the things that we can do are directly related to the kinds of passageways of conception which we allow ourselves to enter, and those can be intentionally shaped by the types of input we choose to take in.
True, some things are meant to be themselves and only themselves, and are not meant to be mapped on to other things, but everything has lessons.
Anything can be universalised. The real question is, "What use is there in doing so?"
- unknownbinaries and cailement talking.
