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Archaean Log or the Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote

• _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Autobiography of an archaean organism reflecting on itself and its place in its world. No idea what I'm supposed to take away from it.
  • johnea 3y ago
    Maybe that was the intention? Sometimes art is storytelling, and sometimes its not... I found the site as a whole had a lot of interesting stuff. The link in my comment was just one example.
    • _a_a_a_ 3y ago
      Slap 'art' on it and everything goes, right? Critical thinking becomes passe.
• johnea 3y ago
  An interesting story/poem, I'm sure a cellular biologist would be able to interpret it a lot more fully than me. To me the most significant thing was just being directed to this website. I found this interview really engaging. The artist really seeks to avoid classification, and tries to convey that the world is not a one phrase meme: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/wild-plants-alaa-abu-asad/ https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/wild-plants-alaa-abu... I often told my son, when he was small and learning words, that a thing becomes invisible once we know a word for it. We just push that mental button and never look directly at the thing ever again. I get the feeling the artist being interviewed here is expresing that same idea...
  • emmelaich 3y ago
    Echoes of Feynman's anecdote on knowing. https://blogs.ubc.ca/edutara/feynmans-knowing-anecdote/ https://blogs.ubc.ca/edutara/feynmans-knowing-anecdote/ > "You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts.”