As we expand our field of view, we come to realize that everything impacts everything else – and we find meaning in these interrelationships.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an illusion. Meaning is derived from context and prior knowledge. Meaning is the ... See more
Eugene Wei • Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
contribute towards building a global hypertext library that would envelope the world in a warm embrace of knowledge and understanding.
This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
... See morethesolarmonk.com • A Spacebar for the Web
Edgelessness is in the web’s structure: it’s comprised of individual pages linked together, so its structure can branch out forever.