[MD] Philosophy and Abstraction

[Matt Kundert]

Yeah, it's this notion that, under the typical understanding of what it 
means to distinguish between "direct" and "indirect" experience, one 
would have to count abstraction as just as direct as experience as 
any other that I've been working on articulating, most recently under 
the rubric of "isolation."

> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:56:08 -0800
> From: ununoctiums at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Philosophy and Abstraction
> 
> Hi Matt,
> It is interesting how we view abstraction as something different from the
> scene abstracted from.  I think this is something of an illusion, perhaps
> provided by the concrete nature of books.  Certainly the abstraction is
> somewhat simplified, but the process of abstraction is as real as any other
> adventure in life; the process of abstraction is no different from
> parachuting.  It is done in the moment and consuming of the present.
>  Abstraction is an art just as much as playing the guitar.  Trying to
> understand somebody else's abstraction may seem a bit removed.  But even
> that is in real time like listening to a concert.
> 
> Mark