[PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Steffen wrote:
> On 26/09/2007, at 21.06, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> Maybe I didn't write as much as that on that topic in the actual paper, as 
>> I was already well over the maximum "allowed" length.
> Id say: Spice that paper with all of that and distribute it. I'd like to read 
> it. Lenght should not be a problem as long as you stay true to your 
> reductionist and concise approach -- that's what it seam to promise anyhoo.

I had to look up the word "reductionist", because I had been so much 
filled with the postmodern mysticism that permeates contemporary culture, 
that I was assuming it meant something else. In the general sense offered 
by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism , it makes a lot more sense.

About the other meanings: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3045 
talks in favour of reductionism in an interesting way. Also, I've seen 
the concept of "Greedy Reductionism" being said "Reductionism", which 
certainly confuses matters, and confused me for a long time.

For a written program (including pd patches but excluding the training of 
neural networks), the complete construction of the program is based on 
other existing constructions, so actually it can't be anything else than 
reductionist in terms of looking at the implementation or even the 
interface, but certainly it is the case that introducing intermediate 
levels of structure of explanations, can be called "more reductionist" 
than not doing it.

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