{"id":46654,"date":"2015-09-19T04:29:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46654"},"modified":"2015-09-19T04:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:29:23","slug":"image-via-elkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46654","title":{"rendered":"Image via Elkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a comparative mapping of time and eternity? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>From my POV, this image is superb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Adam-Elkus-Chess-image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Adam-Elkus-Chess-image1.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Elkus Chess image\" width=\"602\" height=\"759\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Adam-Elkus-Chess-image1.jpg 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Adam-Elkus-Chess-image1-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It demonstrates both the experience of the human chess player, who cannot in general play by a &#8220;brute force&#8221; method since the tree of choices exceeds his neuronal capacity, and the rational experience of the brute force method, illuminated in the case of a problem small enough in scale for artful representation.<\/p>\n<p>And part of what&#8217;s interesting &#8212; wonderful &#8212; here is the fact that the chess board is graphically far less beautiful, I dare to say, than the representation of the corresponding tree of choices.<\/p>\n<p>And it reminds me of nothing so much as <strong>Mark Lombardi<\/strong>&#8216;s fine art &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; graphs, like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lombardi-graph.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lombardi-graph.gif\" alt=\"lombardi graph\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46660\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; taken from Lombardi&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/Mark Lombardi: Global Networks\">Global Networks<\/a>, in which the artist draws the networks of influence surrounding eg oil and war in the Middle East &#8212; and which I&#8217;m sure can be found with a little effort for less than the $234.63 atvwhich Amazon currently offers a used paperback copy.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to <strong>Adam Elkus<\/strong> for pointing me to this concise icon of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wsblog.iash.unibe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Borges_The-Garden-of-Forking-Paths.pdf\">Garden of Forking Paths<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a comparative mapping of time and eternity? ] . From my POV, this image is superb: It demonstrates both the experience of the human chess player, who cannot in general play by a &#8220;brute force&#8221; method since the tree of choices exceeds his neuronal capacity, and the rational experience of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[918,384,133,526,953,529,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-elkus","category-art","category-book","category-charles-cameron","category-choice","category-games","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46665,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46654\/revisions\/46665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}