Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse.
The stone (or the information space) already contained the horse, and a million other possibilities, the job of the artist is to collapse those possibilities into a single reality.
Information has a mathematical definition, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
I’m interested but I’m not sure I have the brain cells for this right now.
Thanks!
i think spongebob covered this well in his attempt to teach squidward how to sculpt
Ah, I haven’t watched The Simpsons.
my fav bit is when the baby screams ‘not the momma’. you should totally check it out.
Kind of like the Library of Babel
Except, ideally, a PhD thesis. Which should contain a completely new piece of information for the world.
Well no. It’s still just a list of text, so that text as well as all other text with minor and major variations exists in the information space. As I said, the hard part is getting rid of all the wrong stuff.
A good portion of any paper is citing references
If you have a block of stone and cut it in two pieces, the position and angle of the cut is information. By carving down a pool of information, you add information to it.
