Gabriel Catren

I understand that the ideas Catren wishes to convey are very abstract and that the goal of a "wordless daydream" is in many ways antithetical to communication through literature, but I still feel very reasonable in complaining about Pleromatica's presentation. It is separated into two entirely unbroken sections of text with very little structure (logical progression of arguments or even description of which ideas shall be elaborated before they are) to grab on to.

I can tell that Catren is show more largely thinking coherent thoughts, and I am deeply intrigued by many of them and wish to know more of his meaning. Unfortunately, they are presented so unclearly that the occasional spots of clarity are the exception rather than the rule; there are moments of lucidity, but much remains obscure.

-edit- I've read another few chunks, and I think I've reached my verdict. There's a lot I like about this, but on the whole I am disappointed. Beyond what I've said so far about clarity, I've read his mathematical sections and I found that his ideas could be expressed much more simply (I don't think you need category theory to say something like "there are many sensible aspects of the real world; many different types of creatures have different sets of sensing capacities, and we can talk about the relationships between these sets, their differences and similarities. This lets us determine also when a thing presents itself inconsistently to two different creatures and when it presents itself consistently." The green/yellow bright/dark glossy/matt coin analogy was very helpful, though.

Gabriel Catren, I'd love to talk about your ideas so that I might better understand what you're shooting for. show less