Saturday, September 24, 2005

Abolishing Logic

Being immersed in an academic setting, it is easy to get lost in metaphysical debate. We, the civilized world relies so much authority on a process that we invented. Most inventions break down, they are machines, vehicles if you will to make life if not easier much more interesting. From what I can tell Logic was invented to allow us to find a place where in this space there are other things that allow us to move forward and live. Let's call this mystical place, truth. So what does this have to do with multimedia? In Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines, the idea of hypermedia is introduced. We use his ideas everyday when searching the internet for facts, pleasure, even truth. Hypermedia however doesn't follow a linear, logical path to truth, it takes major leaps and interesting detours. Yet is the truth we find through this method any more valid than the one we find through logic? Both are human made concepts to help us construct order out of chaos.

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