Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?
this would be such a great case for what I’m working on if I understood it better
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20th century mathematics, in a nutshell: Problem: Escher staircase. Mathematicians: OK, so clearly there's an ordinary (infinite) spiral staircase hidden in the 4th dimension that covers this one infinitely many times. Solved!pic.twitter.com/NLAkjMgKvY
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Mathematicians use words like 'Riemann surface' and 'resolution of singularities via blowups' and 'sheaf cohomology' and it's all REALLY HARD, you have no idea how crushingly difficult it is, but it's like this
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