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One thing I've always wondered about is why crazy people are always fixated on quantum physics and then vague musical terms like "resonances".

LLMs do the same thing when they develop psychosis* except GPT also starts talking about "recursion" and Claude starts trying to enter nirvana.

* historical term "going Rampant"

Your personal insult aside, resonance is a fundamental term in physics and harmonic oscillators are fundamental to quantum field theory and modern physics. Music was a metaphor- this isn’t Nature.

> processes over objects

this is correct, waves are a product of pressures, so, are emergent also, the real question is, where does the pressure originate

Waves don’t come from pressure. Pressure comes from constrained waves… constraints prevent oscillatory relations from freely satisfying their phases. Pressure is a local manifestation of the same idea behind gravity. When many interacting modes lock into a persistent configuration, they impose constraints on nearby modes. To us on the inside it looks like curvature and attraction. But the comment section on HN is a bloodsport…

You're also trying to argue against a nonzero number of literal physicists who do this type of thinking for a living.

I’m sharing not arguing. This is the comment section of a website. I sold my autonomy for a wage doing other things, but I happily accept my affliction of contemplating the universe. Maybe it will spark something in the imagination of someone. Amateurs thinking is what led humanity to this point. I clearly stated my lack of domain expertise- but I reserve my right to unprofessionally question foundations and reject treating silence about first principles as intellectual virtue. I also accept, with grumbling, the downvotes.

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