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Because it's a Strange Loop.
by jessermeyer 10y ago
Because it's a Strange Loop.
- theoh 10y agoHmm, yes, I can see a product idea here: Klein bottle waste baskets. When your waste basket is nonorientable, life becomes much simpler. Everything is both inside and outside the trash.
- vram22 10y agoHe he, good one. That reminds me of a joke I once made, in some relevant context, referencing Heisenberg and Pauli, but I'm uncertain what it was now, so I'll exclude it from here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
- mathetic 10y agoNope. Strange loops are not by definition not intentionally circular (while a circular graph in a file system is in this case). He makes that clear I think in the final chapter of GEB.
- taormina 10y agoFor anyone missing the joke, his follow-up book attempting to better convey some of the same ideas is called "I Am a Strange Loop".