Mar.17, 2003
Chicago
"...Mathematically the space between a 0 and a 1 is infinite. As in Zeno's paradox, Achilles can never catch the tortoise no matter how many times he halves the distance between them. Euclid, fractals, chaos theory - its all using straight lines to describe circles. No matter how many you use, you'll never express the essence. The tool you use, the dual tool, is the bifurcated brainchild of consciousness in its most extreme dualism. From the first strategies, through Apollo's ordered symmetries, through Hebrew Theology, Newton and Descartes, to Windows, there is not a whole left in civilisation, only ten-thousand holes, the gaps and traps between the 0's and 1's that our blind civilisation slouches into over and over..."