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.
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.
Except, ideally, a PhD thesis. Which should contain a completely new piece of information for the world.
Well no. It’s still just a list of text, so that text as well as all other text with minor and major variations exists in the information space. As I said, the hard part is getting rid of all the wrong stuff.
A good portion of any paper is citing references