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I've watched some lectures about CT (and they flew over my head pretty quickly) and I did get the feeling that on one hand there is some deep insight there (tha
by rolisz 3y ago
I've watched some lectures about CT (and they flew over my head pretty quickly) and I did get the feeling that on one hand there is some deep insight there (that I was barely able to glimpse), but on the other hand it felt like that eagle eye view that CT gives is missing too many details.
- passion__desire 3y agoPhysics say it's all probabilities. CT says it's all relationships. CT is related amusingly to abstract nonsense. Basically CT's ability to prove things at such a high level that provides no insights into the going ons in low level details. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/823289/abstract-nonsense-proof https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/823289/abstract-non...
- red_trumpet 3y agoThe term "abstract nonsense" was actually coined in context of category theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense#History