Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want. (lemm.ee)

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Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse.

The stone (or the information space) already contained the horse, and a million other possibilities, the job of the artist is to collapse those possibilities into a single reality.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks!

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