Spatiality, Imagination and Links

AKMA advances the blogthread on alternatives to the spatial metaphor of the Web by focusing on hyperlinks as providing an “associative space,” tying nicely into his earlier comment that “imagination” might provide a better metaphor than mind. He also suggests that Jung might have something to say about this.

I find this more useful than the “mind” metaphor because the point of similarity is much clearer. It is also consonant with the spatiality of the Web since that spatiality is due to the Web’s navigability which is in turn due to its hyperlinked geography.

So, the Web as a global imagination in the sense of an association of ideas. Interesting…

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