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via Metafilter, an intriguing paper on efforts to come up with a way of coding logic problems into diagrams that exploit the capabilities of the visual cortex to instantly process them.
In my humble opinion the author is either a superlative crackpot or a genius.* I rather hope he's the former, because if he is onto something then as a couple of Metafilter commentators noted he's heading off towards inventing the Langford Basilisk.
Either that, or he's going to get a non-negotiable invitation to join the Laundry.
*A feeling I also had after reading Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, which of course was one of the main inspirations for Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, itself featuring the eponymous information virus that is yet another Mind Hack of Death.
In my humble opinion the author is either a superlative crackpot or a genius.* I rather hope he's the former, because if he is onto something then as a couple of Metafilter commentators noted he's heading off towards inventing the Langford Basilisk.
Either that, or he's going to get a non-negotiable invitation to join the Laundry.
*A feeling I also had after reading Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, which of course was one of the main inspirations for Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, itself featuring the eponymous information virus that is yet another Mind Hack of Death.
