hypergraphier
@l_spermatikos
I find patterns to predict and control motions.
One of my favourite 'philosophical' papers about QM is an elegant paper of Von Neumann's, which really inaugurated Quantum Logic. A good starting point is to think about how propositional logic is linked to phase spaces in classical mechanics.
just noticed that the forecasting site @metaculus seems to be inspired by a character in a coen brothers film: he is an unemployed schizoid sleeping on his brother’s couch who gets arrested for sodomy, and is obsessed with the “mentaculus” - the “probability map of the universe”
Has X just identified another fine-tuning condition - for sighted organisms? Namely, that medium first favourable to predator-prey evolution (namely, water) must be quite powerful in the range transparent for the biologically available materials for lenses (also water):
interesting to think that all animal vision still descends from the same evolutionary branch that created opsins, and why haven't land animals extended the range, but i just realized that nearly all biological lenses are based on water!
the legendre transform (between lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics) seems analogous to the church-turing thesis: both map global functional optimisation/ reductions to state-state transitions is there a duality here bridging continuous and discrete domains i am missing?
Einstein and Von Neumann mogging the noisecels:
Schopenhauer on why noise is bothersome, but not for everyone.
Plato’s Phaedrus dialogue, in which he laments the brain rot that the new-fangled technology of writing will cause:
50. writing is amazing. write your stream of thoughts, longhand, on keyboard, doesn't matter. it forces you to make your thoughts explicit, helps with focus, provides external memory. such a great technology
'Schrödinger's cat' is just his more theatrical rendition of 'Einstein's Kegg'. Einstein proposed the Gedankenexperiment, except with a powder kegg instead of a cat, in a letter to Schrödinger on 8th August 1935. Schrödinger wrote back on the 19th reporting his version.
