if we lived in 4 spatial dimensions our cables would never get tangled. really makes you think
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No 👏 4D 👏 knots
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So is the 4th dimension time so you say that at time x the cables are already untangled or is the no tangoes in 4d some fancy topological thing?
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you can visualize it as time but it's a little confusing when you're also trying to talk about a process happening over time (moving a bunch of stuff around in 4d) so i think it's less confusing to visualize it as something else like color
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Thats so interesting. Stop making me want to learn more maths I have vital works to attend to ☺️
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what if,,, math could be another form of meditation,,,
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One of my teachers is a massive maths nerd, suspect he would be very happy being able to use geometric analogies
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there are some neato math analogies. optimization landscapes and gradient descent and simulated annealing and stuff like that are i think genuinely powerful ideas for thinking about what sort of thing a mind is
Nice. He sometimes likes to use an example from geometric inversion (think that is what he called it), something about mapping points in space, the specifics of which are kind of lost on me ha
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