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An "Ant" is a Colony (The Treachery of Images)

2015-01-27 · 2,027 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

An "Ant" is a Colony (The Treachery of Images) — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "The rhythm of ant-watching is not determined by a series of hypotheses, inferences and confirmations. Instead it is a r
An "Ant" is a Colony (The Treachery of Images) — pen and ink drawing

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"The rhythm of ant-watching is not determined by a series of hypotheses, inferences and confirmations. Instead it is a rhythm of inattention, absorption, and sudden transitions. Each transition is from not-seeing to seeing, in which a group of ants seem to click into a pattern and rhythm, like an invisible bit of choreography, which identifies itself to me as patrolling, or foraging; I see them doing something. It is not exactly that the ants suddenly come to life, but that what they are doing suddenly becomes the activity of a form of life I recognize." -D. M. Gordon

"This shows that (now I am using the term ‘proving’ in the traditional sense) one does not prove what one sets out to prove…

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