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Monday, February 07, 2011

Discrete versus Holistic

Language thinking tends more to the discrete: individual items linked together. Thus, it fails miserably to appreciate richness and diversity: for example, the use of DDT to kill pests, ignoring the fact that everything critter that song birds eat will now be laced with DDT.

Music is different, but not necessarily holistic.
Same with Images.
Films are more holistic, for example, than books, but they are not perfectly so.

We spend our time taking the world apart, then trying to put it back together: very much like the Red Queen and all things Lewis Carroll.

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