1/ Short thread on "big picture" visualization metaphors and why I've become increasingly interested in mazes thanks to @danielfschmidt
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Mazes therefore are at the heart of the connection between the two most important ways humans do big picture thinking: in SPACE (2d-2.5d MECE representations of a thing) and TIME (stories that evolve in 1d)
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Mazes are the corpus callosum of abstract human thought. They connect our spatial big picture thinking ability to our temporal big picture thinking ability, by providing a 1d view of a 2.5d and vice versa.
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My personal intellectual stake in the project I'm collaborating on with
@danielfschmidt and@ZachaReid is to really get at the heart of what's going on with mazes and getting better at using them to think. Follow@mazestructure if you want to keep up with our progress.Show this thread -
Related to this, I'm using a "maze of time" to organize my thoughts on temporality in a spatial way. The masthead picture on the
@mazestructure account is a portion of this maze, collaboratively developed by Dan and me. I'm using it to "serialize" my ideas about time... in time.Show this thread -
One of the reasons I jumped on
@RoamResearch when I did is that it also seems to embody an understanding of "maze thinking" as opposed to "jigsaw thinking" or purely serial "narrative thinking". I'm using both Roam and mazes as prosthetics for my current multitemporality researchShow this thread -
Twitter is not quite maze-like, it is much more graph like, so it is less tractable, and it's easier to get lost in the forest of threads and quote tweet intersections.
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I just explained the phrase “the plot thickens” to my 6yo during a competitive maze game. Plot, I said, was the puzzle at the center of a story. This is the first time I really thought of stories as puzzles serialized.
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