discretising the singular

The theoretical form of the objection to averaging: the discretisation of singularity, individuality, and distinction — what happens when a system, a policy, or an analysis resolves a continuous scale-crossing process into discrete units it can count. The counter-proposal is constant interpolation between faster and slower, smaller and larger processes. averaging toward dominance is what this looks like when the counting is done by a set of training photographs.

The singular being defended here is a process that will not reduce to units, not a proper quality a thing possesses — see the sphere of characteristic impressions for why that difference matters and where the Romantic version of it fails.