"I am not a thing-a noun. I seem to be a verb"pic.twitter.com/9QbIdyM9yw
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"I am not a thing-a noun. I seem to be a verb"pic.twitter.com/9QbIdyM9yw
Found after reading about Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile, an attempt to record his life in 15 minute increments. Not much is online, it's in the Stanford Library.pic.twitter.com/QHaXkPRTfl
It sometimes bugs me that most elements in both our interfaces and our scientific theories are either verbs or nouns Random example, from Figma - everything here is a thing or an action I must admit, I don't know how either our interfaces or our theories could be any different!pic.twitter.com/GSChcLvgJ1
Speculatively, it's a consequence of the signature of the Lorentz metric, +1, +1, +1, -1. If the universe had two time dimensions, for instance, I suspect we'd need much more interesting linguistic constructions than just verbs!
That's a fun prompt: construct a language (well proto-language) that might be helpful in a universe with two time dimensions!
This may be useful next time I have a bout of insomnia. Since verbs are tied up with the notion of agency, I think a first step would be to work out what causality might mean in such a universe. And what is the 5D analogue of a 4D person-spacetime-worm?
Interesting to think about what causal networks might look like in such a world. Maybe some change to the requirement that they be directed acyclic? Or perhaps introducing multiple types of edge?
(speculating wildly) maybe instead of edges being directed, they flow either way, and they flow with influence according to complex time. imagining min-cut / max-flow calculations could be used to find "time cliques" with reasonable synchrony / causal agreement
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