Project Log Entry 1
What is the best/fundamental/truest representation of information?
Turing says everything is a unidimmensional array of binary states.
Unix says everything is text.
The internet says more specifically html + css + js.
Social media offers an audio-visual experience which is sensually immersive and generally does well with our lizard brain.
What if it’s all about being able to move between the different representations?
But if you want to move between things, you have to map out and change how the things are connected.
On the one hand noodle was motivated by this attempt to represent reality canonically which is related to weird philosophyical stuff. Consider the phrase “structuralist ontology”. If the world were made of a set of indifferentiable entities, where might the structure of reality emerge from? The idea is that the entities that make up reality are only differentiable in the sense that their relative “perspectives” on the rest of reality are different. The roles of the entities in the structure of things is different, nothing about them inherently. The way they associate to the rest of existence is what defines them as themselves.
On the other hand I was confronted with difficulties around expressing different accounts of reality, agency, and truth. Different perspectives leads to a lot of repetition which might be fine for presenting information to someone coming to it for the first time, but not as a conceptual map. It’s also hard to settle on primitives for certain philosophical concepts, some kind of ground to stand on. You end up in loopy thoughts. For instance when you’re thinking about the nature of axioms, or mechanisms of epistemology where an agent is embedded in the very reality it tries to understand. It seamed that something like noodle could neatly express partially formulated ideas, reduce redundancy, and work with this loopiness rather than be at odds with it.