Hey all, I recently picked up House of Leaves and saw someone refer to it as “Ergodic Literature”. I have no clue what this means or what “Ergodic literature” is supposed to mean since ergodicity seems to be a mathematical term? I’m confused, any attempts to explain ergodicity to me would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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the other poster already said it but
ergodic is when the time average of something equals the average over all the outcomes/states/possibilities
and it’s relevant because you take a measurement for a limited time and need to know if your measurement really represents the average behavior of a system or if it’s somehow stuck in a state for a while.
i wholely object to it being used in literature and think that’s a criminal misappropriation of the term in a context for which it shouldn’t apply: they tryina soun all fancy n shit… straight to jail! what next quantum literature?
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