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Discussion on: Abstraction

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Sam Fisher

Abstraction is an artifact of the process of details removal- yes.

Abstraction is also an artifact of the process of pattern recognition, or the surfacing of meaningful groupings.

One defines in terms of what it’s removes and one defines in terms of what it surfaces.

What is the artifact, by the way? Just a useful name for something.

It seems similar to how neuronal clustering fuses groupings of information together into neighborhoods, highways, maps, etc.

Thank you for writing about this stuff stereobooster! I’m glad you’re out here focusing on the abstract stuff.