Philosophy

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Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

Then it is neither a 6 or a 9, it is worm pattern.

Symbols exist to communicate ideas, and the communicator of the idea is the creator. That's why we care about intent.

'6' and '9' are ideas larger than their arabic numerals. Focusing on intent is a key underpinning to how communication works at all.

Or a worm did it, and it means the worm crawled that way.

the correct answer (I think): 

1) the intention of making the mark is a factual question (could have been intended as either or nothing at all)
2) what the mark can be interpreted as can be either 6, 9, (or something else) but we have social conventions around appealing to intention, 1, to settle it