ON CONFLICT

J. S. Bach. "Contrapunctus 1." 1745. MP3.

"...when it comes to real-world understanding, it seems that there is no simple way to skim off the top level, and program it alone. The triggering patterns of symbols are just too complex. There must be several levels through which thoughts may 'percolate' and 'bubble'."

Hofstadter, Douglass R. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Print. p. 569

ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF SYNTHESIS

Inland Empire. Dir. David Lynch. Perf. Laura Dern and Justin Theroux. Absurda, 2007. DVD.

"Those, however, who assert the absolute reality of space and time, whether they assume it to be subsisting or only inhering, must themselves come into conflict with the principles of experience."

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Trans. Paul Guyer. Ed. Allen Wood. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. Print. p. 166