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You can read a grid as the intersection of lines across empty space or the aggregation of a whole lot of evenly spaced squares. Absolute interconnection or collective isolation, and you can't see the one without the other. Sometimes the only way to perceive the dream of a complete system is through its gaps, or a fragment slipped in for the whole. The paralyzed mechanics of a model solar system remind us that the desire for omniscient perspective can be fruitless: everyone knows you shouldn't look at the sun if you want to see it.

Put slightly differently, this is a conversation about …