the 'mirror neurons' meme
looks like:
robot views (external) video of robot action
robot refers to
reflects on
subjective (internal) knowledge
of how and why
any robot might act that way
but while aristotelian
euclidean newtonian
hierarchies of features
work smoothly for external views
they don't
for internal
subjective reflexive views
of actions-in-action
every opcode or function call
in whatever context
changing some particular values
among all possibilities
so instead of aristotelian hierarchies
we need instead
joycean storycycles
like finnegans wake (or solace)
tracking an everyman's
usual universal
branching storypath
and unexpectedly
this can be neatly illustrated
using the aristotelian 'filetype' category
filetype: text
filetype: image
filetype: audio
filetype: video
filetype: data
filetype: code
and a filetype storycycle
file-consumer
bored curious ignorant interested
knows repertoire of search strategies
(peculiar to each filetype)
engines archives indexes blogs forums fringes
searchpatterns query-etiquette
accessing textlists of file urls
(with brief descriptions)
using file-viewing tools peculiar to filetypes
formats metadata compression bundling
internal structures and sequencing
winnowing useful from useless
identifying masters and wastedumps
retracing others' search skills
comparing their ratings
sharing one's own skills and ratings in forums
identifying gaps among useful files
of a given filetype
and choosing to author a new file
to fill that gap
using file-authoring tools also peculiar to filetype
skills standards practices masters
structures objects sequences
and finally file publication
injecting into others' searchstreams
for free, or not
maximising visibility
monitoring feedback channels...
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