[swayvil]

A computer works with symbols.

A brush works with marks.

The latter is a larger infinity.

It's like the difference between digital and analog. Or raster and vector. Or map and territory.

[anaerobicover]

Surely maps are a larger infinity than territories? I can easily draw maps of territories that do not, have not, and even cannot exist.

Likewise symbols and brushmarks. I can describe brushmarks that could never be physically realized.

[swayvil]

But those map-artifacts are not real things. They are just symbols.