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> computer science leaking out

Planck constant would like to have a word with you. But it is true that CS shines a light on the matter of mapping the infinite into bounded spaces.

This matter of ‘cognition’ is the entire matter (npi) of contention. What is the actual relationship between number and perceived phenomena? What is the deeper meaning of the concordance of mathematics and physics? Where do these magical constants come from and what does it all mean?

It seems we bring the ‘world’ into being by partitioning. See Genesis 1 for details.

> the world is continuous

Reality is actually a unified undivided unity without form and timeless & eternal - that is all we can say with certainty. The “world” is our perception of this reality. Our cognitive machinary is discreet, and a mapping of this reality into metric & temporal spaces of the mind.

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> Planck constant would like to have a word with you.

Do you want to flesh this out? Are you suggesting that because phase space is quantized, position space must be quantized as well?

As someone who was once a, "I've watched a lot of YouTube videos about physics", person, i think it's very interesting how confident people are in their understanding of what is essentially the edge of physics, something only seen in a masters or doctorate degree. Specifically the whole spacetime and qm thing.

There's so many videos on it that you begin to feel like you really understand it after half a dozen or so repeat the same words at you. But the thing you don't realize is that those are literally the only words they could possibly communicate, and that's an infinitesimal fraction of the nuance of the real thing. Plus, there's a selection bias in that the videos that make you feel good get more views, so you're more likely to stumble upon videos that make you _think_ you understand it that videos that actually do, partly because the only videos that could make you understand are a graduate degrees worth of 80-100 hour lecture courses that you're gonna have to take notes on.

It makes me wonder if this is true for literally every subject. I fancy myself are least politically versed in modern events but is my entire understanding based on an entertainment-first version of an actual education? How much do i walk around using jargon that i don't really understand to make points whose true depth I'm completely unaware of?

My favorite phenomenon of which you speak are the guys who haven’t thought about math since 11th grade or physics ever aside from seeing some Joe Rogan clips with Eric Weinstein but will pound their keyboards with fury that “STRING THEORY IS A BIG LIE!!!”

Well, unfortunately some otherwise great physics educators intentionally stoke that fire, portraying the current particle physics agenda as if its some conspiracy to waste funding rather than the consensus of thousands of the best minds in physics. Selling people a superficial sense of contrarian insight ends up being a very successful marketing tactic.

Most nerds who "understand quantum mechanics" misunderstand (usually do to incorrect explanations) that the Planck units are somehow the fundamental units of reality

A discreet unit of measure exists in dynamics & its relationship to position space is informed by Heisenberg’s theorem.

(My actual point is that Reality is neither continuous nor discreet - it is an infinitesimal point and it is our mind — that likes to name and number things and relies on duality to make ‘distinctions’ — that creates the universe, the subjective reality that we perceive as inhabiting.)

What is an infinitesimal point?

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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