On 25 Nov 2008, at 00:45, Eric Wolf wrote: > Modeling the world in a computer faces the flip-side of the same > challenges facing artificial intelligence. Our immersion in the > world around us is at one what makes us human (dasein) and enables > our intelligence. But this immersion is consistently taken for > granted but Computer Scientists while it is the very core of > Geography.
Yeah, I get this. Thanks for bringing up Heidegger. :) The whole neo-/ paleo- (and by extension google/esri tools/user) debate seems incredibly facile* after reading Being and Time or The Origin of the Work of Art. Increasingly precise mimetic representations of the planet will ultimate tell us no more about 'Earth' than looking at a drawing of a tree will tell us about the sensory experience of walking through a forest. Even Borges' mythical 1:1 map could never express the experiential nature of space which is that of a lived environment. imho the really interesting questions centre around the issues of how we look at memory, psychology and culture wrt to space. Cheers, A * though interesting from a rhetorical and cultural pov. -- Andrew Larcombe Freelance Geospatial, Database & Web Programming web: http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk : http://blog.andrewl.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mob: +44 (7760) 258623 icq: 306690163 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
