Richard Powers on BEWILDERMENT
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Theo is trying to develop techniques for finding bio signatures on all these new exo planets that are appearing now. As i was creating theo, i was thinking again about my own life as a programme and how those processes of creating structure actually had consequences. The use of form in a novel to ratify or subvert expectation, the use of a plot to create the thing that a programme does when it runs a trial. And there's an countability to results that i think i underwrite those disciplines. In science and in programming, it's not good enough to want it to work a certain way. It has to work ino. I made a living programming for a long time
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