Compassion, empathy, seeing yourself in others, this is the critical foundation of anarchy—the necessary premise to even think of a world without rulership. Sociopaths cannot grasp this. And the alt-right is just a coalition of more clearheaded egoists, horrified by altruists. https://twitter.com/nisenohata/status/938971486609580032 …
The general form of a mental representation is a probabilistic algorithm, but probabilities might be 1 or 0. Mathematics is the domain of formal symbol systems, and we can discover it by approximating suitable operators.