The Knowledge Ecology

link:: https://subconscious.substack.com/p/the-knowledge-ecology tags:: #article author:: Gordon Brander published:: May 14th, 2021

  • Starts with an Alan Kay quote:
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    • Is the thinking in the pencil? The cybernetic resolution to this paradox is to shift our focus away from static objects—pencil, piano, person—and toward the flow of information between those objects. The pencil and the person make up a feedback loop. The piano and the person make up a feedback loop. Together they make up an extended-self system that can do things which neither could have done alone.
    • So where does the music live? In the piano? In me? Nowhere, specifically. It emerges from the feedback between the piano and me. id:: 63baf706-eec6-4941-82d8-9b8d1061921d
  • Links to Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

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