| ▲ | iansteyn 17 hours ago |
| Yeah I felt the contradictions here too. Doesn’t the feeling of “magic” directly proceed from abstraction and non-tractability (or at least, as you say, not needing to understand every part of the system)? |
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| ▲ | glenstein 16 hours ago | parent [-] |
| >Doesn’t the feeling of “magic” directly proceed from abstraction and non-tractability Yes, but also I think it can also have a kind of liminal impression of an internal logic. |
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| ▲ | iansteyn 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Would you mind elaborating? | | |
| ▲ | glenstein 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | I agree that the "magic" feeling involves abstraction from nuts and bolts, but a kind of notable responsiveness to, say, preferred trains of thought that are optimal for a workflow or project management or for rich functional interaction. I use the word "liminal" in the sense of the aesthetic term "liminal spaces" to indicate a presence of a kind of lightweight logic not necessarily fully articulated. |
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