@QuantumTumbler@EliahRuan Choice breaks symmetry. It’s a philosophical position, not proof. I’m arguing its not incompatible. Physics was always metaphors(“field”). Action would be finding the path where the tension between competing commitments resolves, where variation in either direction costs equally.
@QuantumTumbler@EliahRuan Something that encodes transformation history (spinors). Something that weights all possible paths causally (path integrals). Something where journey shapes the entity (path dependence). Something responsive to absent/non-local fields (Aharonov-Bohm / intentionality)
@QuantumTumbler@EliahRuan Path dependence implies the journey shapes the journeyer (personality). Aharonov bohm and potentials act like intentionality. If you wanted to model agency, intentionality, deliberation, personality, and selfhood through transformation you force the same modeling choices.
@QuantumTumbler@EliahRuan Black-Scholes and pressure both emerge from diffusion mathematics, Brownian motion. All you need is a fractal universe of caring and commitment from agents and you can replicate what we see mathematically. The commitments and carings far simpler at the smallest level.
@QuantumTumbler@EliahRuan Could not interactions arise from carings and constraints from commitments? You would have the same outcomes. In the market, you have emergent constraints and interactions arising from people caring about something and commiting.
There is a way of living
where action grows out of listening
Where the next step appears naturally
when the noise quiets.
Where motion is not an escape from stillness
but an expression of it.
It’s funny, whenever we find peace after living in perturbation and internalizing it, we often want to run. Because it doesn’t feel natural to us at first. We fear we will lose something, and that is true, but what we are losing is what was never truly ours to begin with.
@floogy@ftlsid Yes, absolutely. By setting the intention to be collectivist as your attractor and do so by individualistic means is indeed ideal. It’s individualism + realization of our interconnection. Helping others helps you. But to help others you must help yourself. The synthesis is key.
Wonder cannot increase
until you allow yourself to lose shape.
To be undone
not by what is new,
but by what has always been here—
waiting for you
to drop the veil
of knowing.