Paola, (01)
You had wondered: (02)
> RE. Koestler
> I read (and cited) excerpts from the Ghost in the Machine, was
> not aware of the book you mention below
> but since looking it up it looks he wrote a lot of stuff ,
> wonder how difficult its going to be to get hold of these books
> in the library (03)
Good libraries should have it. It's certainly read in at least
some relevant quarters. Alan Kay in his keynote address at
OOPSLA'97 devoted a lot of attention to Koestler and his notion of
bisociation. (04)
In my OOPSLA'96 workshop paper,
http://jeffsutherland.com/oopsla96/spottisw.html, I had already
acknowledged my debt to Koestler, so I was most happy that the
inventor of windowing systems.should also find bisociation
relevant. Cf. my last sentence of the paragraph concerned in the
post you were responding to: (05)
>> Hence the MACK notion of 'context', which involves an
>> ever-changing or kaleidoscopic new light on the particular
>> given and basic facts of the situation, with an intuitiveness
>> very similar to that of good multi-windowed applications. (06)
I hope you manage to lay your hands on the book, and thanks for
agreeing it might be relevant to our common interests! (07)
Christopher (08)
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