…the curiously literary nature of reality. That it's much more like a novel by Thomas Pynchon than it is like an equation by Ilya Pregojin. And why is that? Is it because, in fact, the flesh is word? And that understanding this is the real task of…

…precludes our understanding. Anything interesting. That's why people like Ralph Abraham, with his theory of dynamics, and Ilya Pregojin, with his non equilibrium thermodynamics, and Manfred Eigen, with his autocatalytic hypercycles. These are interesting new…