Overview
A very human consideration about taking perspectives on frameworks, told through an adventure playing out in a moment at a Quantum Baseball Spring Training gym.
quantum mechanicsartphenomenologyActive Inferencevisual analysissymbolismMorse code
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Findings and contributions
- The authors argue that a gap in a framework can either be retained as-is (barrier-like) or filled, enabling different functions.
- They argue a trade-off between stability/rigidity and adjustability affordance exists in frameworks, typically settled by the rack's fabricator.
- They propose that a framework does not do the work but provides room for work to be done.
- They argue blind spots exist from any vantage point and that moving attention, eyes and body removes them.
Methods
- First-person visual-phenomenological reflection on a gym squat rack — The essay restricts itself to visually triggered experiences and thoughts while looking at a squat-rack framework during 'Spring Training' in a gym.
- Successively zoomed photographs of the rack used as the case — Photographs of the rack are shown and zoomed in twice on a blurry region to isolate the gap between two vertical structures.
- Extended baseball metaphor and staged dialog interlude — The piece is framed as a Quantum Baseball spring training, with a mock radio ad and an ExecutI'VE/ExecutOR dialog as a '7th inning stretch'.
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Friedman, Daniel Ari; Tickles, Dean. 2024. Four-fold Fields of Quantum Dreams. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10798144. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10798144.
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