number – Marco Montalto

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The light of the body is the eye

It is impossible to know anything. Knowledge is a chimera. If it wasn’t for the textbook in front of you, you wouldn’t have even come to know the brain. The brain is an excellent example; the quintessential example of a model modelled on a model modelled to model one into a model thinking agent. The…

Script

The eyes cannot see numbers or letters of the alphabet, only their glyphs. A 1-bit image would do away with sub-pixels and interpolation. There are no gradients in the pixel. The world can be reduced to numbers, quanta, but Man cannot see these, only understand them. And Man needs the machine to rerender the…

say goodbye, say hello

The number zero is the only true invention. The human, the inventor of the number zero, happens to be a creature (but is not necessarily the sole creature) that can understand the concept of the number zero and its most direct offspring: the ratio scale. With the advent of this remarkable invention, everything could be…