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I've seen this "everything is a remix" idea thrown around a lot, and always want to ask... so how did anything get started? What was the first cave-dwelling carver of a bone flute remixing? What was Alan Turing remixing to come up with the Turing machine? Where did Proto-Indo-European language come from?

Maybe there's some sense of "remix" that covers all of that, but then that meaning is not the standard one, or maybe you would concede that this happened in the past, but isn't happening now, but then where's the cutoff, or maybe something else...?

In your analogy, I would love to see some elaboration on the "reflective and spans outside of itself" part -- geometry doesn't work that way, do you have a more intuitive metaphor, or ideally a mechanism, or even better, some examples?



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