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We can't imagine a non-mathematical universe
A universe that could not be described mathematically would need to be not only unpredictable but fundamentally irrational.
Because a theory is implausible doesn't mean we can't describe it mathematically.
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Mathematics is a language
The Sapir-Whort hypothesis states that you can't discuss a concept if you don't have the language to describe it.
In any science, we need to describe concepts. For example, one can describe an electron, but the moment we ask questions like "What colour is it?" English falls...
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Predicting chaos
Mathematics is not just a language for describing the external world but, in many ways, it is the only one. However, because we can describe something mathematically doesn't mean we can predict it.
Chaotic systems is one of the recent remarkable discoveries. These are simpl...
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Designing social systems
Many social phenomena, from the stock market to revolutions, lack good predictive mathematics, but we can describe them in retrospect and to some extent construct model systems.
In personal relationships, the majority of us choose partners inside our social class and linguistic group, so it...
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The world is created by a mathematician
The Babylonians possibly started applying mathematics to scientific study. Nearly 3,000 years ago, they used mathematics to discover the pattern underlying eclipses. But it took another 2,500 years and the invention of calculus and Newtonian physics to explain the patterns.
Nearly every maj...
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The Prime Number Maze
William Paulsen introduces a fascinating maze based solely on the distribution of the prime numbers. Balaji extrapolates this to all of human knowledge.
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How we feel about feelings
Humans have always experienced boredom and loneliness and a need for acceptance. The feel of feelings is the same as it has always been.
However, how we describe those feelings has changed. For example, boredom and loneliness were once seen as part of life. Now they are described as p...
We have an irrational compulsion to keep doors open
It's just the way we're wired. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to close them.
We need to drop out of committees that are a waste of our time. We ought to shut them because they draw energy and commitment away keeping doors open from the doors that should be left ope...
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