Take any piece of paper. Draw anything on it. Crumple it up. It is not all that easy to express precisely in what way the flat and the crumpled patterns are similar and differ.
You see how a signature stays more "the same" in a way a drawing does not.
And here, in R.D.Laing's words, is how Sha Xin Wei reacted to my explanation of the ultimate Euphonopen, the machine that will have learned to play or sing the way I draw...
As the proverbial Irishman said when shown an excessively intricate machine, all parts working away. Yes, I see it works in practice but does it work in theory?
Oh, and by the way, who is the the Prince de Ligne?
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