“Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics” by Hakim Bey. Dense and difficult, but essential insights. http://www.strange-loops.com/philhakimchaoslinguistics.html … via @St_Rev
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@Meaningness The chief weakness of the piece is its (unnecessary) appeal to mathematical “chaos” as explanatory principle. …>3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Thing that popular accounts find fascinating about chaos is: it produces patterned behavior that’s detail-rich at many scales…>1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness The truth about chaos is that the detail produced is severely constrained and eventually profoundly boring. Unlike language. …>1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness E.g., the wooly detail of a Julia set is controlled by a single numerical parameter. So there’s not much actually “there”.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@joXn Where I find it interesting is in systems that are also complex in the ordinary sense (as that essay also aid).2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@joXn It’s important because it rules out the kinds of analysis for which we have good tools. So we have to find ways to cope w/nebulosity.
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