Spectrality, ambiguity, and accuracy

 
Morton 81: "[S]pectrality could be thought of as an index of reality or accuracy. [...] [A]mbiguity is a signal of accuracy"
 
He acknowledges that "This is not how we normally like to think about ambiguity"
 
He refers, by example, to when you are being fitted for glasses, and you can no longer tell which is better, "number one" or "number two"
 
"The basic, irresolvable ambiguity that happens at that moment is a signal of the accuracy of the prescription"
 
81: "The space of attunement is a spectral realm that is 'analog,' thick, not rigidly bounded [...] The floating of decision in this spectral attunement space is accurate."
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

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