Hm, feels off to me. What privileges the original representation of the uncompressed file as the space in which locality matters? I can buy the idea that understanding is somehow related to a description that can separate the whole into parts, but why do the boundaries of those parts have to live in the representation of the file I’m handed? Why can’t my explanation have parts in some abstract space instead? Lots of explanations of phenomena seem to work like that.
Hm, feels off to me. What privileges the original representation of the uncompressed file as the space in which locality matters? I can buy the idea that understanding is somehow related to a description that can separate the whole into parts, but why do the boundaries of those parts have to live in the representation of the file I’m handed? Why can’t my explanation have parts in some abstract space instead? Lots of explanations of phenomena seem to work like that.