70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The Journey Not the Destination
An Indian village has got an infinite number of states effectively and it is mathematically impossible to solve it in this way. We've really kept those untouchables away from everyone else but also simultaneously prevented them emigrating to the cities. This is achieved by giving them their own little compound or getter. I appreciate the sort of cosmicness of this idea of the whole of history of like human history as essentially a kind of like informatic process for the definition of cultural objects isn't it? It'ssort of that's like a big acid trip kind of insight isn't it?" "I would say with this one it's definitely the journey not the destination what do you think when he
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