When the relationship between two systems is taken as fixed, they act as a single, complex system. However, if their flavors are quite different, using them jointly prepares you for the leap into meta-systematicity—where the relationships between systems become open to question.
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The ability to reason about program text and runtime state simultaneously separates cut-and-paste coders from skilled hackers who can debug complex datastructure traversal algorithms, or find 100x speedups in already-tight code.
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Seductive misleading analogy: code:runtime::model:reality leads to rationalist misunderstandings on the part of expert CS folks. The runtime is *also* a formal system, and thus almost perfectly dissimilar to almost all of reality. It lacks nebulosity.
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You think you are programming a computer, but actually you are herding clouds of electrons through a knobbly 3D maze.
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The entire postmodern world is built on our astonishing ability to damp the chaotic quantum dynamics (perfect unpredictability) of an electron gas into the digital abstraction (perfect predictability) in a billionth of a second.
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Physicists often adopt a different rationalist misunderstanding of the theory/reality relationship: that it is a matter of numerical approximation. That works only in highly restricted, closely-controlled circumstances. Relevant xkcd:pic.twitter.com/zFWyMCSBPi
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Well… I speak to different audiences in different languages… many people interested in my stuff have strong STEM backgrounds, and this sort of presentation is appealing to them.
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In some sense, https://buddhism-for-vampires.com says all the same things in very different language. It may not have broad appeal either, but maybe it would work better for you?
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I think the essence of an idea can be boiled down to an A4 sheet, or even a single sentence. If the reader has the context to understand it, then a highly condensed presentation is best! But usually more explanation is required.
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Everything I have to say boils down to “Nebulosity and pattern are inseparable.” But maybe that isn’t much use by itself!
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