Dear learners,
Two years ago my friend, an author asked me to get involved in a project
which involved me scanning images into a Hewlett Packard scanner, within
perhaps an hour or so it started to play up, I have no idea what was the
cause of the malfunction, it could have been anything, it could have been
any component. For all this dunce knows it could have been the cable;-)
but just before that light swept the bed it played a tune, the normal
humming of the engine or whatever powers it played a tune. I was
transfixed by it. Scanners do not play tunes. This one was. The tune?
Beethoven's Ode to Joy... just a few bars... then that was it... bought a
new scanner. Maybe HP programmed it in as a joke, maybe knot.
Here my dear learningful friends is something I read just a few days ago
by the biologist and phenomenologist Francesco Varela, "The more recent
wave of work in complexity illuminates my bootstrap idea, in that it's a
nice way of talking about this funny, screwy logic where the snake bites
its own tail and you can't discern a beginning. Forget the idea of a black
box with inputs and outputs. Think in terms of loops. ..Snip.. In several
contemporary complex systems, the inputs and outputs are completely
dependent on interactions within the system, and their richness comes from
their internal connectedness. Give up the boxes, and work with the entire
loopiness of the thing."
Become of good heart then, lighten up. Go loopy for a day. Get out of that
box. Come into the garden.
Love,
Andrew
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