fragment.01 / marble
Σ — sum
the whole is other than the sum of its parts
— after Aristotle, corrected
Greek for whole, entire, complete. The root of holistic, hologram, holography, and catholic. The idea that a system possesses properties its parts do not have on their own.
const part = fragment('ὅλος');
const whole = parts
.reduce((acc, p) =>
merge(acc, p),
emergence);A column is not a temple. A letter is not a word. A part, alone, is already something — and not yet enough.
wholes and not wholes, converging diverging, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.
type Edge<A, B> = (a: A) => B;
type Bond = Edge<Part, Part>;
// a connection is a verb
// that insists on two nounsBetween every two stones, a line of raked gravel. Between every two functions, a signature.
“From things that differ comes the fairest tune.”
— Heraclitus, fr. B8