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I remember reading this article when it came out and found it fascinating but didn't have the knowledge to refute its more amazing claims, I wonder if anyone ar
by jboggan 10y ago
I remember reading this article when it came out and found it fascinating but didn't have the knowledge to refute its more amazing claims, I wonder if anyone around here might be able to chime in?
- lmm 10y agoBeing able to observe a quantum state without disrupting it is literally, provably impossible (look up the no-cloning theorem). Mathematics is abstraction. If this particular manifold shows up in both quarks and bee dances, that probably just means it's a pretty simple manifold. The logic here seems like the equivalent of: planets move in circles, wheels are circular, therefore wheels must be connected to planets.
- RodgerTheGreat 10y agoAgreed. Discovering a simple mathematical model which matches the bee dance is really neat- it explains how an apparently complex phenomenon can be captured in a relatively simple piece of neural circuitry. The rest seems to be wild speculation.