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Well if I could just impart one idea or concept it would be similar to Feynman's quote: >“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroy
by arisbe__ 4y ago
Well if I could just impart one idea or concept it would be similar to Feynman's quote:
>“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.” ― Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
This should be generalized and augmented to the idea of analysis and synthesis in general, what we could call "general alchemy". That is physical and symbolic isolation & scientific controls help to understand the world, but we also need to figure out the "chemistry" so to speak of how things tend to combine and transform so we can understand the whole ecology of the integrated system.
The freedom to choose among terabytes would take a ton of thought to actually come up with some optimal set. You could probably churn over thoughts on the subject for years.
- ohiovr 4y agoThe future would continue like a nursery rhyme. Embedded in everyone that had English speaking ancestors had this inscribed in them: ring around the rosy pocket full of posy ashes ashes we all fall down The inscription date was 538 ad, the second year of the plague of Justinian and the installment of the Biship of Rome.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoOddly enough, that's a similar idea to a plot point in anime called Dr.Stone. https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales
- jhugo 4y agoThere's no record of that rhyme earlier than the 19th century. Also, the association of it with any kind of plague is a modern invention. Usually association with the Great Plague is claimed, but no writing about the rhyme from before WWII makes any mention of a plague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Great_Plague_explanation_of_the_mid-20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Gre...
- folli 4y agoThat naturally shows Feynman's bias as a physicists. A biologist would very likely answer that the concept of evolution should be first on the list of ideas to preserve. A mathematician will yet have another answer...
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- exikyut 4y agoPhilosophical consideration: maybe that bias would also incorporate some assumption of familiarity (https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/), and a further implicit expectation that this familiarity (aka unwritten/tribal knowledge) would also implicitly contribute to the raw material necessary to rebuild from some baseline axiom. In other words, maybe everyone says only X Y and Z from their field is necessary/the most important, not (just) because nothing else is on their radar, but because when they think of their field, simply just mentally reasoning about X, Y, or Z is all it takes to take into account all the connected associations, without the feeling this reasoning takes much mental space or effort; and maybe this is an interesting mental fallacy.
- arisbe__ 4y agoYes well I don't think Feynman's answer is the one single thing to be passed down myself, I am talking about its generalization in a conceptual, philosophical or mathematical sense. As for if this differs from Darwinian evolution perhaps, and perhaps they will both be subsumed under a comprehensive evo-devo-eco theory which is then generalized to a discipline agnostic model. Since they are two pieces of this triad it is difficult to choose between them.
- TristanBall 4y ago"Try something different" "Don't follow our example" "Wrong way, go back" All seem like reasonable bits of advice from a civilisation that let itself get wiped out,pretty much regardless of the cause.
- blep_ 4y agoCheating answer: the entirety of Wikipedia and every textbook I can find, encoded to a very long base64 string prefixed with "Base64 is [brief description], and you should use that to decode this:" Now you can include images too!