I'm taking a moment from studying for an upcoming exam to type out this first entry. A passage I have just read has struck me as particularily relevant to the circuit of ideas that I've found myself following this past year or so. The passage, from Tim Berners-Lee's "Weaving the Web", is as follows

"The intuitive step occurs when someone following links by a a number of independant people notices a relevant relationship, and creates a shortcut link to record it. This all works only if each person makes links as he or she browses, so writing, link creation, and browsing must be totally integrated. If someone discovers a relationship but doesn't make
the link, he or she is wiser but the group is not."

"If we succeed, creativity will arise across larger and more diverse groups. These high-level activities, which have occurred just within one human's brain, will occur among ever-larger, more interconnected groups of people acting as if they shared a larger intuitive brain. It is an intriguing analogy."

Within this exerpt there are a number of ideas that interest me. They all sort of blend together and lend to eachother. The main reason that the above writing has spurred me on to start this blog* is that it touches on three areas that, as I have said, have kept popping up my life during the past while. These ideas are emergence, complexity theory, and
the collective unconcious.

Now, I'm not committing this project to just these three areas. Not at all. I'm not at all sure of what my focus here will be. Hopefully it'll end up as a dynamic little spot, with a little of everything. We'll see.

*I really don't like the term 'blog'; it sounds like bog, as in bogged down. I'd rather just go
with good ole' weblog...in fact, I think I will. From here on in, there will be no 'bloging'
from this writer - just pure, old school weblog editing.
- posted by K. @ 9:43 AM