Ciao Jeremy I slept on it.
Joe's insight about The Monad is incredibly succinct and to the point about TW. I know about monads from philosophy rather than CS. But it's the same territory. When Leibnitz wrote the "Monadology" (giving name to a philosophy that first evolved in ancient Greece with Pythagoras) he pointed to the seamless nature of experiencing. Monad as "undivided multiplicity". In philosophy it tends to be associated with "idealism". I don't have space to explain what that means. But it is not a fault, it's an orientation. Of more recent philosophers Gendlin (A Process Model) and Whitehead (Process & Reality) understand the monad. Whitehead particularly is relevant in that he formalised a math philosophy. It's very close to CS. "Process" philosophy is very different than most ideas of what happens. In particular it's very good at understanding how we derive novelty from re-combination of the prior. In brief, mostly we tend to think of explaining before we do, whilst in practice the new is only explainable after it's occurred. Back to The TiddlyWiki... Whilst my points are not gonna make any difference to most practical issues ... ... I'd say that The TiddlyWiki is both a MONAD & a QUINE In a sense they are same type of thing, almost interchangeable terms. I think those two overview concepts are helpful. If TWX were renamed THE MONAD I'd be happy 😁 Just thought you might be interested! Best wishes Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/23af3bdd-469b-4bac-870e-c06ea7b42a40%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
