Room 1 of 11 · Ground floor
Two
“Can two things be together and still be two?”
Lamp waiting
▶ Hear the storyteller tell this roomLook
Two dolls stand on opposite sides of a small table. One is Fen. One is Wren.
Try
Move Fen. Then tie the string and move Fen again.
Notice
Try the experiment first. Then this will fill in.
What keeps this room working?
There must be at least two things you can truly tell apart.
What would break this room?
If every difference is erased and the two dolls are treated as one identical thing.
Child-sized version
“Together does not mean same.”
Try to break the room
For grown-upsShow me the math
Connecting two things is not the same as identifying them. A relation between two objects keeps both objects.
- Distinct elements
- Two members of a set that are not equal to each other.
- Relation
- The string is a relation between two things that stay two.
- Identification
- Declaring two things to be the same. The room forbids doing this silently.