A copy machine copies a 5 minute video over time, going line by line, one line per second. Every pixel it sees, it copies perfectly. Is it an accurate copy?
A teacher teaches a student every thing the teacher knows, building up from basic to advanced knowledge over the course of years. At each weekly lesson, the student learns the planned material perfectly. That exact topic is never revisited again.
By the end of the last class, does the student know and understand everything the teacher knows?
The sort-of-mathematical phrasing I might use to describe the copy-machine copy is “a slice of a flat diagonal hyperplane, with both time and space components.”
The second question is a sort of “oh, I guess this gesture has a few useful-to-think-about analogs in real life.”
A copy machine copies a 5 minute video over time, going line by line, one line per second. Every pixel it sees, it copies perfectly. Is it an accurate copy?
A teacher teaches a student every thing the teacher knows, building up from basic to advanced knowledge over the course of years. At each weekly lesson, the student learns the planned material perfectly. That exact topic is never revisited again.
By the end of the last class, does the student know and understand everything the teacher knows?
Bits of koan that dropped into my head.
The sort-of-mathematical phrasing I might use to describe the copy-machine copy is “a slice of a flat diagonal hyperplane, with both time and space components.”
The second question is a sort of “oh, I guess this gesture has a few useful-to-think-about analogs in real life.”