Kartik

Computational cosmology, Spacetime philosophy, everything art | bonn, cologne, oxford, ashoka

[Kartik @krtktwri]

I'm happy to introduce Symmatica, a space to situate our theoretical formalisms within wider pursuits of awe and meaning.

For now, a blog. Someday, a community for those who live between proofs and poems.

Symmatica starts here: https://t.co/ZykgTe5Yee

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@TVachaW WOOHOOO FINALLYY!!!!

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@zetalyrae (I say this as a physics and philosophy of physics phd student) large fractions of physics semantics can't be formalized and large parts of physics formalisms have unclear semantics (people talk past each other all the time when talking about BH, energy, locality, infinity, etc)

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@SatpreetMakhija haha i'm soo glad you enjoyed it. It's highly ahistorical and dramatized but considering the two managed to write such a fun book on analytic philosophy, i'll never stop singing its praise

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@sladesr This is exactly the metaphor that Schrodinger quotes from Advaita Vedanta in his essay "My View of the World"

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@drishtadyumn don't know how the plot was produced but the x-axis is not normalised to per capita duh

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@PAHoyeck I'm generally disappointed by scifi movies because they rarely go as hard as print-sf (due to the length constraints ofc). But from a film-making/craft perspective Herzog's 'Lessons from Darkness' and Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' are absolute cinema

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might as well post this here too I guess

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I'm a Buddhist in that I support dialetheism and para-consistent logic, and I'm a Vedantic in that I support the Neo-Aristotelian grounding program and priority monism

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@davidbessis This reminds me of a thread by @getjonwithit He said his work on automated theorem proving made him realize that, in some sense, it was the mathematician's interest in a patch of a landscape of theorems that breaths life into an otherwise sophisticated but sterile space

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@TOEwithCurt Cool thread. Another angle to infinity which has foundational interest is its application in physics; from Berkeley-Newton debates about infinitesimals, to renormalizations and GR singularities, conformal completions and asymptotic symmetries (im biased because its my PhD focus)

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@eigenron I doubt the efficacy of essays (because it's largely an aesthetic question) but what works well here is to motivate what a vision of utopian future might look like. Fiction works well for this use case. The short story called 'The Gentle Deduction' by Stiegler is a good start ig

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@eigenron That there is grotesque suffering to be eliminated from the realm of our shared experiences, that knowledge has intrinsic value and mysteries still remain. I don't align with e/acc because I don't think swapping one set of problems with another set of problems counts as progress

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You can read it here: https://t.co/l7WVXagH27

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First half of an essay where I motivate my secular account of sacred experiences (as someone who makes a living out of studying foundations of physics)

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@zetalyrae The ending absolutely wrecked me man ;_;

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Kartik Tiwari @hppBonn on the spacetime matter distinction

https://t.co/nCkojy2N0S

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@TVachaW Beautiful

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@adityaarpitha Just last week I wrote something about this 'disembodied, ideas-rich life' -

https://t.co/cIqsjLGjon

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@vrundasays_ I consistently feel the same until I teach/tutor for a course. As soon as that happens, something within me flips. Your professors understand the wide variety of textbook material so well because they've taught it many many times