(Answer only if you’ve ever derived a mathematical proof.) Have you ever “seen” a proof of a theorem in an intuitive flash of insight?
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Oh, that's interesting! What was the theorem?
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A friend was talking about digital physics and talking about stationary objects (like, you’re evolving a cellular-automata discretization of the Schrodinger equation & some regions stay constant over time)
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just curious, did b, c or d result in epiphany moments? i.e. elation? sense of well-being? satisfaction? if c was associated with an epiphany moment, what did you feel after the proof failed? ambivalence? loss? also, do you feel different about c outcomes vs b or d?
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Yes, elation, followed by anxiety (“am I having delusions of grandeur?”)
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You're obviously a genius*!
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The height of my math achievement is “ok technically this is an original theorem but only because nobody else has the sheer stimulant-fueled bloody-mindedness to fuck around with integrals of special functions this much”.
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