communication. community. cognition.
Found in Translation
Why are so many people worried about what gets lost in translation, when so much else is found?
It’s no secret that for thousands of years, you’d find the most interesting ideas at the crossroads. The intersections of commerce that brought goods, services and ideas that would go on to infect other tribes.
The same holds true today, as the breakthrough advances in science and math come about through cross-pollination of ideas, and transformation. Mathematical theorems that were unprovable through algebra alone become solvable when converted into a topological construct.
Patterns and their significance — even their inherent beauty — are often masked until they are retranslated through the appropriate filters. This video is genius, not just because of the technical virtuosity required to make it, but because of the genius it reveals.
…and I don’t even like Jazz.
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