{"id":1990,"date":"2018-02-12T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2018-07-17T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:42:22","slug":"to-flop-out-of-neutrality-or-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/to-flop-out-of-neutrality-or-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":"To flop out of neutrality or not to"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Math and more generally formal scientific terminologies, are to informal (preconceived) interpretations what walls are to tags in Berlin. They stain easily. Colourlessness is an opportunity and a call for colouring. In science, this stakes the quality of what we’re doing,\u00a0the precision and aptness of science. This is not<\/strong> to say that math and formal terminology are dispensable. They absolutely are not<\/strong>! It is to say that in themselves they are\u00a0not<\/strong> sufficient to ensure scientific rigour and relevance.<\/p>\n

The following animation about a bird and a man interacting in a building, is designed to pre-emp historical\u00a0interpretations of a particular mathematical object called Bo<\/em>olean Automata Networks<\/em>. By imposing a colourful\u00a0 imagery, it thwarts preconceptions\u00a0<\/em>before they even start making implicit the assumptions that are sustaining those interpretations, thus allowing us to look at them straight in the eye.<\/p>\n

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NB: Even though it is about a very mathematical object, the animation is\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0(!<\/strong>) an illustration\u00a0nor a simplification of something that can be said more accurately and completely with the maths. All the information that is conveyed by the math per se<\/em> is supposed to be conveyed by this animation too. Of course, being\u00a0 subjected to the tag-wall effect myself, the animation certainly and hopefully exposes my own blind spots and biases.<\/p>\n

\"corpped-man_armchair-red\"It is safe to say that wherever you come from, this animation puts you in a position where you instantly, effortlessly (because instinctively) understand specific things\u00a0 that no amount of sound, complete mathematical proofs would suffice to make you pay attention to, were you looking at them from inside certain traditional scientific frameworks.<\/p>\n

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