"Nostalgic time is that time-out-of-time of daydreaming and longing that jeopardizes one's timetables and work ethic, even when one is working on nostalgia".
Boym.
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How about this...
"Thus it is clear that the wholeness is a structure of great subtlety which is induced in the whole. It cannot easily be predicted from the parts, and it is useless to
think of it as a relationship among the parts."
Alexander, The Nature of Order.
I continue to believe there is social design gold in the work of Alexander.
I'd love to hear Alexander discuss this with Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins is the author of On Intelligence. He's also one of folks behind Palm Pilots, and appears to spend a lot of his time thinking about how brains work. Hawkins has some fascinating ideas about the cortex and it's hierarchical ordering capabilities. Be interesting to see if they'd find some common ground.
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