The problem with having a (single) point of view
The power of multi-perspectival thinking
In the article above Derek Cabrera says:
“Categories have a dark side: they are a cognitive cul de sac or dead end in the road. Categorization makes us feel like we are getting some- where, speeding down the highway of under- standing and knowledge until Wham!, dead end. We’re stuck. And, it usually takes a long time to get unstuck.”
I’m not certain whether Derek would agree, but I’m thinking the problem with categorisation is not that we categorise things, but that we get stuck on a given way of categorising them: stuck on a particular way of structuring the hierarchy, stuck of a particular way of putting the parts into wholes or items into groups.
This is why in Thortspace we have:
(1) “category sets” and
(2) arrangements — which used to be called “contexts”.
That is why we built Thortspace to be #playful in respect of putting thorts into
(1) groups in multiple alternative different ways (“arrangements”), and
(2) multiple alternative different categorisations (“category sets”).
Category Sets
Arrangements
There is a lot of ground we still have to take on this in front of us, but essentially the target is “multi-perspectival” thinking.
Thortspace does not merely provide visualisations in multi-dimensional 3D. But abstractly it also targets understanding subjects and projects from multiple different points of view.
