Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015@GabrielDuquette it's complicated of course but...trails are the first maps, maps are representations of information about a territory...114
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette ...used to navigate a territory (goal-directed behavior within the territory)12
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette many territories are self-mapping, assisting mental representations of them, often modified that way by past travelers25
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette (e.g large herbivore trails, some architecture)33
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing @GabrielDuquette What are you saying here beyond the pave-the-cowpaths principle of design?2
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @GabrielDuquette don't pave the cow paths wtf22
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Aug 18, 2015Replying to @sarahdoingthing@vgr @GabrielDuquette starts from here and gets more abstract http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.4876…21
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing Any sufficiently advanced trail is indistinguishable from a parking lot. Any sufficiently advanced TP=AP :)5:31 PM · Aug 18, 2015