I believe that we should start mathematics education with programming, then go to generator systems for numbers and operators over them, then how to form lattices and operators on patterns in the lattice, and do approximately continuous math and physics only at the very end.
Kay is an exceptional thinker, and the people that came up with the idea of algorithms, too. But for understanding our nature, this is irrelevant. For understanding something, it is not important who else thinks what about it!
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Looking forward to a detailed elaboration on this very interesting perspective of yours. In our chats we seem to multiple time arrived at this very point - but the medium blocks further introspection / translation / clarity. When the time comes, will think of a solution & propose
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When talking to you I get the impression that you see yourself as part of a larger, emergent mind. I reject that idea, because I perceive the larger, emergent minds around me as violently stupid, and their functionality requires constraining the intellectual agency of their hosts
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There was a system developed in my home state of Kerala, India, from where the Arabs learnt maths.
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