Viable is more useful than correct. If nothing else, art viably creates experience, and that's useful. Art doesn't have to be correct, it just has to create an experience. I think of everything I do and make and think as art. All we have is experience. All I have to make is art.
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"viable is more useful than correct"
just occurred to me that this is pretty much just
"viable is more viable than correct"
"x is more x than correct"
for what values of x is this correct?
I think this ends up looking like
"what's more dimensional than something of a lesser dimension?"
"I don't know, what *do* you call something that's more dimensional than something of a lesser dimension?"
"I don't know, you tell me and I'll tell you!"
grounding this: I remember the spot where my brain stopped being able to track the math I was trying to learn. I remember what it felt like. I couldn't *see* it. I don't remember the specifics of where I was in calculus or whatever, but I just stopped being able to follow the connections.
this is the thing I didn't "get" at the time - like, if I went back and took that class again, I'd be able to follow. (I think, anyway, I don't know.)
"when taking the derivative, how does a symbolic expression survive?"
like, literally: if you're fond of how the characters look in an expression, and you know that taking the derivative is going to transform some things and the constants will just straight up vanish from the expression, how do you keep the thing going?
you build with e^x
... okay, this *has* to be related to the three-body solution
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