The brain is like a world with 100 billion people, each one of whom has 10,000 friends. Each person talks to all of their friends all day every day. But when they talk, they put every single one of their friends on speakerphone simultaneously and say only the most boring things you can possibly imagine. . . . → Read More: Neuroscience metaphor
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Our intuition is that nature must be logically consistent. Thus our problem with a first cause is that it arises ex nihilo. It seems it is therefore either (1) arbitrary, or (2) teleological, i.e. consistent only with what follows it, seemingly engineered in order to bring about a certain effect. Topologically, the flow of first . . . → Read More: First cause unnecessary To the extent that the problem you are working on can be represented clearly in pictures, that problem is a real-world problem. To the extent that the problem you are working on can only be represented clearly in words, that problem is a linguistic problem. I have been thinking recently about ways to represent some . . . → Read More: Pictures and artifacts Scientists write poetry with facts. Mathematicians write poetry with truth. |
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