I’m increasingly convinced the ancients did not think of, or experience, time the way we do, as a kind of one-way street spatial dimension. It was a flux with a material quality. Like a river flowing through you. Or like weather.
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I was always bowled over by the idea that our natural numberline is geometric not arithmetic. Not naturally understanding time is just an extension of that.
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There’s also the idea of Brouwer’s intuitionistic continuum, which is probably the weirdest idea in mathematics plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuit
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I tried to understand this. Lost me entirely. Any tl;dr?
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Basically math gets really weird if you make reductio ad absurdum/law of excluded middle illegal. It's a much more conservative but serious mathematics. It's a retirement project for me to understand intuitionistic math (despite name, it's *more* rigorous than regular, not less)


