A primary reason for going to all the trouble to learn this new sensual language is to learn new ways of thinking.
> Boundary languages are visceral. Interpretation will remain constant as the boundary representation is transcribed across dimensions, from 1D strings to 2D icons to 3D architectures to 4D temporal experiences. There is no abstract/concrete dichotomy, so that boundary languages are much easier to understand. No mind/body split, so boundary forms are much easier to tolerate. In contrast, string encoding cannot be experienced, it must be learned via memorization. Consequently string languages remain necessarily cerebral. Mathematical nominalism holds that mathematics is about objects that exist. Container languages provide nominalistic consistency by requiring that concepts too have a manifest form.
Volume I focuses on visual and manipulable structures. Volume II takes an historical side trip to recount and compare the artifacts found by the first explorers of modern formal numerics about 140 years ago. Many of their discoveries have been canonized today as what numbers are, even though these artifacts were mined from cognitive environments that did not include vitally relevant experience with electrical machines, silicon computers, a global internet and a universe of software applications. Particularly absent from the cognitive artifacts of a centu
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visceral | BrE ˈvɪs(ə)rəl, AmE ˈvɪs(ə)rəl | adjective (Anatomy) Eingeweide- (figurative) (deep-seated) tief sitzend ‹Angst› eingefleischt ‹Vorurteil›