“Money has no value. It is a representation of value.”

— Nathan Binnema

“Yes. It is a bit like a photograph. My mother is not in the photograph. Yet the photograph may contain a record or image that is associated with my mother’s appearance.

Someone the other day asked my to locate the panda in a single electronic image that contained a set of 40 or so images of faces. One of those was an image representing the face of a panda.

I replied: There is no panda there. A panda is an animal. It is impossible for there to be an animal in any set of photographs.

Representations are not what they are representations ‘of’. Especially if they represent either living beings or aspects of lived relation.”

— an intelligence agent