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"Disregard the Words"
The difficulty of forming a clear conception of the subject is increased by the fact that while we have to deal with novel and strange facts, we have also to use old words in novel and inconsistent senses. A message had seemed to be a physical object. That was always an illusion; now people needed consciously to divorce their conception of the mess
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Experience requires qualitative description in addition to computational processes. Words are symbols that map to phenomenological phenomena—the things we experience but can’t reduce to numbers without losing the essence of the thing we set out to describe—
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Which is all to say: there is always something a little, well, dangerous, about the concept of originality: a danger that has been elided by our contemporary startup-statured culture, which holds as gospel that imitation is for normies, and innovation for the kind of geniuses most people now secretly believe themselves to be.