for STEM folks, who you’re trying to reach, what’s needed is examples where “fuzzy” “unscientific” thinking wins really big …
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I only started thinking about the 4.1…4.9 structure a few days ago, but I was thinking that the final lesson would be called >
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“Conjuration: legendary feats of meta-systematicity”; and I came up with a list of examples, but then realized that none are sciency
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everyone accepts that group theory and symmetries of groups are integral to physics, but rewind 150 years and nobody did
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Maxwell had everything needed to beat Einstein to the punch, but the group theory involved was considered abstract nonsense
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let me see if I can find you a good citation. Might take some digging.
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there’s a similar ongoing example right now; look at category theory changing how we think about the structure of programs.
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though I find these examples unsatisfying; as an applied mathematician “math has applications” is “duh!” rather than “aha!”
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