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The tie to chaos theory is pretty weak, but I love Borges, and especially love that story, and this was an excellent analysis of it.
by empath75 2y ago
The tie to chaos theory is pretty weak, but I love Borges, and especially love that story, and this was an excellent analysis of it.
- ineptech 2y agoAgreed, we need a postscript from the author explaining that he set out to avoid drawing a comparison with chaotic systems, but after months of editing and tearing up handwritten drafts found himself arriving at one anyway.
- josh-sematic 2y agoYeah, I love Borges but this was kind of a stretch. There are better Borges stories that would fit the chaos theme better too. “The Lottery in Babylon” might work as it explores how much chance influences our lives.
- viccis 2y agoMy take on that one was how much of our modern society's structures are just instruments for hedging against the chance of any given day to day life. How hierarchies might grow out of equal chance based outcomes.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> hierarchies might grow out of equal chance based outcomes. Might? Run a simulation. Absent restoring forces, they do grow. Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος
- josh-sematic 2y agoValid; I don’t think that is incompatible with exploring the influence of chance in general.
- emmelaich 2y agoI found myself thinking of the fixed point theorems, as if compressing ideas and culture into a story must at least necessarily repeat exactly some small part of every other book written on the same subject. But also of clean-room implementations; as if Don Quixote represents an idea and in implementation of that idea one must inevitably duplicate some small part of someone else's independent implementation.