BAEZ: (Tugging a neon-green bungee cord until it hums) It’s not plumbing, Prof. It’s Topology. We’re moving past the “Muth” phase. We’ve realized that math isn’t a static library of truths—it’s a Physics of Configuration.
ALDA: You say thinking is a kind of inquiry. Most of us think thinking is… you know… having thoughts. / PEIRCE: That is like saying digestion is having food. The interesting part is what happens because something is indigestible.
In Laws of Form, I began with the mark: the act of drawing a distinction. / Yet the mark itself presupposes something deeper-- a prior domain in which no geometry is given. / Here I present a successor: The Laws of Formless, a calculus that precedes the making of form…
The HARTI hypothesis situates humanity’s uniqueness not in pure logic, speech, or play, but in the general-purpose ability to transform the irreducible into the intelligible. / Whether viewed as the root of our greatness or the source of our downfall, rationalization remains central to any account of what it means to be human.
iHack, therefore iBlog 