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Searching for the numinous. Individually & collectively optimistic. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, now home in 🇺🇸. @AsteraInstitute. Thinking out loud at: http://mnielsen.github.io 

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    Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

    "I am not a thing-a noun. I seem to be a verb"pic.twitter.com/9QbIdyM9yw

    10:25 PM - 19 Jun 2020
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      2. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        pic.twitter.com/iFtiB6KzuU

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      3. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        Found after reading about Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile, an attempt to record his life in 15 minute increments. Not much is online, it's in the Stanford Library.pic.twitter.com/QHaXkPRTfl

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      4. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        pic.twitter.com/tncw9GvcWJ

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      5. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        pic.twitter.com/kCjo6vqg5E

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      6. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        It sometimes bugs me that most elements in both our interfaces and our scientific theories are either verbs or nouns Random example, from Figma - everything here is a thing or an action I must admit, I don't know how either our interfaces or our theories could be any different!pic.twitter.com/GSChcLvgJ1

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      7. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        Speculatively, it's a consequence of the signature of the Lorentz metric, +1, +1, +1, -1. If the universe had two time dimensions, for instance, I suspect we'd need much more interesting linguistic constructions than just verbs!

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      8. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        That's a fun prompt: construct a language (well proto-language) that might be helpful in a universe with two time dimensions!

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      9. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 19 Jun 2020

        Also fun to think about what interfaces might look like in such a universe.

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      10. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 20 Jun 2020

        Thanks to @CorneliusRoemer, for pointing out that I erroneously replaced the dash by a hyphen in the first tweet. I'm not sure what a thing-a noun is, sounds like some sort of escapee from the linguists' menagerie.

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      11. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 20 Jun 2020

        Related, Ken Liu's short story on what books might look like, for 5 alien species (via @timoni): http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-bookmaking-habits-of-select-species/ … (In some sense, that's a much easier variant of the question about language in universes with different laws of physics.)

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