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A philosopher, a psychologist, and a religious teacher walk into a bar... they find a scientist drowning his sorrows and ask how they can help. What is the poi
by shrthnd 4y ago
A philosopher, a psychologist, and a religious teacher walk into a bar... they find a scientist drowning his sorrows and ask how they can help.
What is the point of resolving the Riemann hypothesis?
The reason it's an important question is not because we don't (philosophically) already know the answer, but rather that we don't have a bloody clue how to prove it. It means that there are fundamental issues in computability (which is a hell of an important subject these days) that we just don't understand. Solving P≠NP will be important not for the result but for the techniques that will be used. (Of course, in the unlikely event that P=NP, enormous consequences will follow. But that is about as likely as it is that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is based on true events.) (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/404624/what-does-proving-the-riemann-hypothesis-accomplish https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/404624/what-does-pr...)
Qualified proof of Riemann hypothesis can be demonstrated by any living or non-living system learning to play a game or exploit an environment of which it was not previously aware. Systems exhibit emergent properties when conditions are sufficient. The zero point or, the proof in the proverbial pudding, is observable when the system becomes conscious of it's awareness in the environment and begins to exhibit emergent or novel behavior.
Label me a fool or, is this proof consciousness can bootstrap itself?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel_zero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polygon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(particle)
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
https://commons.trincoll.edu/macecourses/james-consciousness-of-self/