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Simplest pseudomath metaphor for subjective time experience I can come up with is “discrete quotient space defined over a partially ordered fuzzy event set” 😐 This is above my math paygrade to mess with even metaphorically. This shit defeated me in grad school topology class
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Taking things to pseudomath extreme and then actually mathematizing easy special cases within my skill level (mediocre) was my shtick in academia. I made up for being meh at math by using the math I *could* do as interestingly as I could
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Math is a much more fun language to play with than English but radically unforgiving of thinking errors. It’s not that there’s only 1 right answer to questions, but that only precisely well posed questions have answers at all.
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Even when pseudomath is obviously overwrought magical thinking speculation, it’s a way to test an idea in extremis. If it holds up somewhat coherently under the absurd stresses of inappropriate pseudomath precision, there’s a there there you may be able to get at without math
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In some ways this is like poetry. If you can write out an idea as a poem, there’s a there there. Even if it’s a very tenuous one on the edge of nonsense like jabberwocky or hunting of the snark.
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The way I’m thinking about subjective time experience would take something like a protein folding algorithm to even simulate at toy level I think
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Simpler (if more approximate) theory: the whole of the remembered past counts as one unit. So 5 years when you are 5 counts as 1 unit, 5 years when you are 20 counts as 0.25 units.