nodes, connections.
Every thought is made up of the things that are connected to it, and it is only those that give it meaning.
An object it represents, and the relationship that it has to other things.
Einstein and others broke the conventions of science, breaking open the world as they knew it. At the same time surrealists and other odds were challenging the minds of people in their art to an unprecedented level. At the same time modern ballet and other dance mediums were forging new ways of doing things. bizaare really.