On the structure of reality vs. the structure of perception. Causation in history as a real-but-unpointable structure, reached by reasoning never by sight, alongside zero and the vacuum. The pattern as the real thing, the material incidental; a structure reached by reasoning past how the body feels from inside.
Pour milk into coffee. The white blooms, curls, slackens, drowns into an even brown. Now run the film backward. The brown unmixes. The milk gathers itself and leaps into the jug. Everyone laughs. No one can say which law was broken. None was. Every single collision in that cup is reversible — run any one […]
You can show someone three stones. Set them on a table, point: three. You can show them one. You can, with some effort, show a thousand — a crowd, a field of grain, a long enough wait. You cannot show anyone zero stones. You can clear the table and gesture, but the gesture lands on […]