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Modelling is an interesting thing. Our math is such an elegant language that it can describe such amazingly rich abstractions. On one hand, we have category the
by goalieca 10y ago
Modelling is an interesting thing. Our math is such an elegant language that it can describe such amazingly rich abstractions. On one hand, we have category theorists and computer scientists working on the more familiar modelling of computational patterns. On the other, we have physicists coming up with all kinds of equally curious patterns in particle fields. It seems many of the patterns are just abstract nonsense but there are too many coincidences to ignore. To me this hints of some underlying structure that we are completely blind to still. Oh, how i wish to study math from the future.
- HiroshiSan 10y agoStudy math now! With reverse ageing in the future you could potentially become one of the best in the field. There is time.
- CamperBob2 10y agoSounds like an excellent excuse to not study math now.
- HiroshiSan 10y agoAaah...procrastination. "I'll just wait t'ill I'm 150."
- pavel_lishin 10y agoReminds me of some lyrics I like: Throw it away, what's left to need When you’ve got infinity So much out there left to find We'll do that some other time
- nitrogen 10y ago...and an excellent reason to put 100% of available resources into anti-aging research.
- idlewords 10y agoWith reverse ageing, you'll just unlearn all that laboriously learned math.
- HiroshiSan 10y agoBenjamin button was a documentary ahead of its time.
- lkrubner 10y agoSeriously. Real increases in lifespan (I'm thinking about Louis Gridley Wu celebrating his 200 birthday) would have to involve (at least occassionally) revitalizing stem cells to renew the body at rates that would seem normal in a very young person. This would have to include nerve cells. Presumably, this would lead to a reversal of specialization. That implies memory loss ("memory" in all neurological senses: how to write software, but also how to speak English, how to control defecation, how to control urination. Really renewing one's central nervous system would rewind a person back to the unspecialized nervous system they were born with.)
- judahmeek 10y agoSo do it incrementally like the human body does with everything else so that fresh neurons can learn the roles of the neurons they are replacing.
- sbierwagen 10y agoWhy would you think that? Information is stored in the configuration of neurons, not in the neurons themselves. Neurons are constantly being replaced, and you don't wake up one morning not knowing how to bike because your "bicycle neuron" died.
- Typhon 10y agoNeurons are constantly being replaced Are they ? As far as I know, neurons last more or less from before birth to death. There is neurogenesis in the hippocampus but it doesn't replace existing neurons, and the new cells themselves last until death.
- fjdlwlv 10y agoWhat coincidences? Why assume we are blind? Complex numbers are an underlying structure that has unified wide ranging physical phenomena
- chriswarbo 10y ago> Complex numbers are an underlying structure that has unified wide ranging physical phenomena And yet complex numbers are merely a shadow of much deeper unifying structures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra
- walrus1066 10y agoThe modeling and the maths allow us to make concrete, precise predictions of how nature behaves, that are testable by experiment.
- amelius 10y agoI sometimes wonder if there is a way to automate the generation of mathematical abstractions and reporting the ones that have physical relevance. I guess one of the big problems then (besides tractability) is how to feed it with experimental data. Even if it is not feasible, then it would still be interesting to read how mathematical physicists would theoretically approach this problem (and even how they would define it).
- paulddraper 10y agoAbstraction is almost by definition the information that not-automated (and the automated portion is concealed but the abstraction)