posted by Jack Butler on August 30, 1999 at 11:31:40:
in reply to: Linking Together posted by Jeremy Drummond on August 30, 1999 at 03:23:18:
Simplify and Multiply
"It is a challenge to struggle with these complex ideas ...".Jeremy, To my mind, the main purpose of this web- conversation is to simplify the ideas we are trying to communicate on this website, and to multiply the audience or participants. Beyond babysitting the conference page, I am enjoying, and appreciate, your "struggle with these complex ideas" as a participant in the converstaion. Simplify and miltiply: by simplify, I mean that I am trying to focus on the central idea of the site (an idea that will not let me rest) - a picture is not about a word- thought, a picture is the thought itself. In the context of this project to model an unknown biological development - how do lungs develop the structure that supports the breath? - to understand the pictures (an art experience) is to understand the biological process (a scientific experience). My intention in the site is to unpack what is involved in understanding pictures and also to unpack what is involved in understanding biological modeling-as-pictures.
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