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so. this is the second part of my essay. part one is here. i have no doubt that this is confusing and probably unsound thinking, but i want to write a book in the end. so i best get some sentences down.

i'd like to have a crack at the concept of bandwidth: not as in computers and the internet specifically, although that is a useful example. what i mean when i say bandwidth (and it's not my terminology, but i can't remember whose it is - which is ironic if you know the direction this essay eventually goes in) is the quality of information transfer...

it is about systems. and transfer of information in between. if you think of morse code it's likely to be among the simpler forms of communication we've got: a set of beeps stands for a word. on either end of the wire there is, hopefully, a person. inside this person is a veritable swirl of information: thoughts, memories and hopes. so... we have two systems connected via a very simple connection. this is two high bandwidth systems with a low bandwidth connection. it is my contention that interesting things occur, that is, we can learn most about systems, where the bandwidth is restricted.

3 comments:

  1. You said that this is the section of the blog you'd most like to receive feedback on, but I'm not sure exactly what it is you need to hear. Things that make sense to me/don't? Would you like to be asked questions?

    Happy to help if I can but don't want to, you know. Uselessly bombard you.

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  2. dear anonymous,

    i'd love to be asked questions. i'm aware that this won't be the final way these thoughts are laid out, but i'd be interested to see what makes sense, or what seems pointless, or even interesting!

    yours e-mmediately,

    thom

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  3. (Hello Thom.)

    Interesting. I've always said that true art comes from working within limitations, and this is a very similar concept. Low bandwidth forces one to use cleverness to reconstruct lost data, and that's when interesting things happen.

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