Of late, I've become interested (AKA "mildly obsessed") in/with William
Wimsatt's work. (hmmm, U of Chicago, aren't some folks recently in the
news from there?) Always liked the notion of processes selecting for
accessibility (to maybe see what I'm talking about, study the Hasegawa
dyptich at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space) for a few
minutes/hours). Not to mention the whole Occam's Razor show at the SF
Complex continues to reverberate with the local Taiko folk and Wimsatt's
paper has some insights there in the first several pages. So anyhow,
"interested", so here, have a pod...
From N-Category Cafe, originally -
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/mathematical_robustness.html
Thence to the eminently devourable paper:
http://www.institutnicod.org/Reduction/7.OntComplSys.pdf (pictures are
worth several hundred words).
and then to the interviews at:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/071004/limited-beings.shtml (Nicely
assembled, short, pithy.)
which refer to his book: http://tinyurl.com/66zxgp
which I will order soon from my meager resources if no one stops me.
C.
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