Addendum (Out of concern for appearing too vague and mystical):
What is interesting about a brick wall?
Is is in the texture of a brick or its color or its cracks?
Is it in the alignment pattern of the rows, or the deviations within the rows?
Is it in the statistical regularities of the rows and columns forming the wall?
Is it in the demonstration of rectangular tiling in the plane, properties of containment and division?
Is it in the ecological aspects of the wall in relation to it’s environment?
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What is interesting in Borges’s Library of Babel, in all it’s vast algorithmic complexity?
What’s commonly lacking from scientific accounts of the world is the essential role of the observer, not in the world itself, but in any accounting of it.
The benefit of staring at a wall is to become aware of the observer, beyond that it’s relatively pointless.
Addendum (Out of concern for appearing too vague and mystical):
What is interesting about a brick wall?
Is is in the texture of a brick or its color or its cracks? Is it in the alignment pattern of the rows, or the deviations within the rows? Is it in the statistical regularities of the rows and columns forming the wall? Is it in the demonstration of rectangular tiling in the plane, properties of containment and division? Is it in the ecological aspects of the wall in relation to it’s environment? …
What is interesting in Borges’s Library of Babel, in all it’s vast algorithmic complexity?
What’s commonly lacking from scientific accounts of the world is the essential role of the observer, not in the world itself, but in any accounting of it.
The benefit of staring at a wall is to become aware of the observer, beyond that it’s relatively pointless.