On 29.07.2010, at 21:56, Rob Myers wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 07:44 PM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>> This is what we've been doing all along, also what we have called codelets:
>> http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/
>
> I reviewed that project for Furtherfield:
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=337
>
> "This is a Romantic use of code, a projection of human experience onto mere material existence. Processes become lives or individuals, network sockets become voices or eyes. And in a Nietschean twist some of the code can be genuinely destructive for data. But it works the other way round as well, demonstrating that meaning can be found in or recovered from mere processes."
Ah, nice to see this.
So in that context, it seems your quote says that the bare "mere"-ness of processes, gained by their uselessness and counter-productivity, are the true roots of meaning and life?
Received on Thu Jul 29 2010 - 20:09:22 BST