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I like what I've read so far. He combines scientific metaphors in interesting ways. He's constantly making reference to physics, computation, cybernetics, infor
by memexy 6y ago
I like what I've read so far. He combines scientific metaphors in interesting ways. He's constantly making reference to physics, computation, cybernetics, information theory, semiotics, logic, general semantics, ecology, etc. I like all of those fields so his explanations make a lot of sense.
I recently read "Frank Herbert" by Tim O'Reilly and Herbert also speaks with the same metaphors but with a much heavier emphasis on ecology: https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/.
I suspect analyzing the ideas that Herbert and Watts emphasize and how they're related would be a very interesting and worthwhile exercise.