creators_name: Buliga, Marius creators_id: Marius.Buliga@gmail.com type: preprint datestamp: 2011-05-02 17:10:41 lastmod: 2011-05-02 17:10:41 metadata_visibility: show title: Computing with space: a tangle formalism for chora and difference subjects: bio-phys subjects: comp-sci-hci subjects: comp-sci-mach-vis subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public abstract: What is space computing,simulation, or understanding? Converging from several sources, this seems to be something more primitive than what is meant nowadays by computation, something that was along with us since antiquity (the word "choros", "chora", denotes "space" or "place" and is seemingly the most mysterious notion from Plato, described in Timaeus 48e - 53c) which has to do with cybernetics and with the understanding of the front end visual system. It may have some unexpected applications, also. Here, inspired by Bateson (see Supplementary Material), I explore from the mathematical side the point of view that there is no difference between the map and the territory, but instead the transformation of one into another can be understood by using a formalism of tangle diagrams. date: 2011-04-15 date_type: completed refereed: FALSE referencetext: \bibitem{buligadil1} M. Buliga, Dilatation structures I. Fundamentals, {\it J. Gen. Lie Theory Appl.}, {\bf 1} (2007), 2, 65-95. \bibitem{buligadil2} M. Buliga, Infinitesimal affine geometry of metric spaces endowed with a dilatation structure , {\it Houston Journal of Math.} 36, 1 (2010), 91-136, \url{http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0135} \bibitem{buligasr} M. Buliga, Dilatation structures in sub-riemannian geometry, in: Contemporary Geometry and Topology and Related Topics. Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj University Press (2008), 89-105 \bibitem{buligadil3} M. 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