Really excited this morning. Found a video of a talk by Margaret Wertheim on TED about a project to crochet coral reefs - an environmentalist, artistic and scientific collaboration. Apparently crochet is perfect for representing hyperbolic space. Wicked!



Without dwelling too long on what intuition is, I have been thinking about why we respond to certain ideas so well, perhaps picking up on them previously in other guises. Is this mimesis again? Communication through metaphor, understood abstractly (in language?) on an intuitive level, empathised with through emotions in real-life human interaction, reproduced in creativity as new ideas, plastic or virtual... blah blah, I'm just buzzing like I did reading William Gibson as a teenager. Uranus again. Communication, it's overwhelming. These fishes know where they're going.