“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”
— John Dewey
— John Dewey
Equilibrium = {
abstract source, destination as Quantity
abstract equation as Equation
if not equation.exists(source) or not equation.exists(destination) then fail
source:postassign = new Method {equation.solveFor(destination)}
destination:postassign = new Method {equation.solveFor(source)}
}
Relativity = {
abstract difference as Quantity
is Equilibrium {
reified equation = new Equation {destination, equals, source, add, difference}
}
}
Proportionality = {
abstract coefficient as Quantity
is Equilibrium {
reified equation = new Equation {destination, equals, source, multiply, coefficient}
}
}
Circle = {
abstract radius, circumference as Quantity
new Proportionality {source: radius, destination: circumference, coefficient: 2*pi}
}
Rectangle = {
abstract width, height as Quantity
}
Square = {
is Rectangle {}
new Equilibrium = {
reified source = width, destination = height
reified equation = new Equation {source, equals, destination}
}
}
a = new Square
a.width = 5“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
— Lord Kelvin
— Lord Kelvin
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
— George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe (1952)
— George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe (1952)
“We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work.”
— Ernest Rutherford
— Ernest Rutherford
“It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
significance is essential for individuation
significance is a subjective attribute of phenomena
∴ individuation is subjective
significance is a subjective attribute of phenomena
∴ individuation is subjective
Constitution Hypothesis
Any phrase starting in "being" can be rewritten to start in "having", in other words, any natural pattern of "being something" is equivalent to some "having something(s)".
Any phrase starting in "being" can be rewritten to start in "having", in other words, any natural pattern of "being something" is equivalent to some "having something(s)".
In both code and design, a lack of well-written documentations is why we always feel the need to start from scratch.
Psychology, self analysis, and self conversation, are all meaningless for an artificial agent; all conclusions drawn and the path to reach them from primitive belief are fully known, nothing is forgotten and nothing is confused by the plague of sentiment. The artificial agent is not stubborn, it is strategic.
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Up until the advent of computers, each thing had a finite set of purposes, which were often less, rather than more. The general-purpose universal machine was the first step towards infinity; and that is my definition of power, unlimited possibilities.
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
— Cary Grant
— Cary Grant