[beepbooptheory]

I just want to say this was a wonderful log. There are not many in this field who have an intuition or impulse towards materialist/historical analysis, but whether you are aware of it or not, that is certainly what I read here. Just to say, its not quite recognizing how we find ourselves thinking that is enlightening, but rather recognizing why we find ourselves thinking like we do that can bring clarity and purpose.

In a little more woo woo: abstractions are never pure, they will always carry a trace of the material conditions that produce them. To me, this is the story of computing.

[wryl]

Thank you for the kind words! "I appreciate them" would be an understatement.

And I agree entirely. Tracking the history of an abstraction will usually tell you its root, though it gets pretty muddy if that root is deep-seated!