@autonomousHBD @soapjackal Levels. There's no reason eg mathematical results have to be encoded that way--computers don't work like that.
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@soapjackal Computers don't do math via proof. Even a formal proof system produces results that are unreadable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal And mathematicians don't *discover* results via story. Story is just the natural mode of communication.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@soapjackal I don't tell a story when I go to the store. But in speaking of my trip to the store I naturally organize it thus1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal I had a goal (get food), I needed to overcome an obstacle (put gas in the care) there was a journey1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal Yeah. As agents, we agent-ify and linearize events in the world. That's story compression.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal Can it scale for a larger and larger society? In the dissemination of morals, values, premises etc.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal I don't think we ever stop storytelling. What changes is the stability of stories, how tested they are.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@autonomousHBD @soapjackal We don't have any fewer stories than a stone age tribe--we have more, if anything. They're just unstable, foolish
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@soapjackal Partly this is because the Soviets were really good at creating zombie death memes.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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