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Finite versus "infinite" | njwildberger: tangential thoughts
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Materialism and Cantor's higher infinities (transcript of talk) -
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| | Are Cantor's higher infinities really real?
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Donald Knuth: Calculus via O notation | Mathematics under the Microscope
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| | Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file). Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so...
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Why Quantum Gravity Is Controversial | 4 gravitons
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| | Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...
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Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach | Qualia Computing
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| by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")...