michael_nielsen

Thomas Merton advocated silence, empathy, self-examination, interiority → things that restrain, illuminate, heal.https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/807631135853264896 …

If we humans are just calcium levers, enzymes, mitochondria, electric impulses → I suppose none of this matters & Merton/Miyazaki are fools.

is that there is _tremendous_ meaning in the exact pattern of arrangement.

I know as a science-lover, I'm probably the exception. But I believe there is more than just physicality/material things.

Maybe it's dimensionality, maybe it's quantum structure, maybe there are invisible strings. Or apricot jelly. Or God.

Admittedly, the apricot jelly hypothesis looks pretty shaky...

Hey! Like Grothendieck, "I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that..."

(This is not exactly a small project. But I can't let the idea go...)