Big Mood: Peli's theory of vibe

[Clinamenic]

But I do still agree: that math renders intelligible a great portion of the phenomena enabling our consciousness and other cognitive functions.

 

[Leo]

A dry, unromantic perspective on life.

 

[Leo]

You need to experience some inexplicable burst of passion.

 

[Leo]

Do something callous.

 

[sus]

Ultimately I with you here, but I would still assert that math like all other conceptual frameworks are part of the map and not the territory. I think even percepts like visual input are still more map than territory.

Yes, I am relatively uninformed about this stuff but agree with you. Math is just a more precise way of talking about stuff

 

[sus]

A dry, unromantic perspective on life.

Do your homework Leo. Did you read any of the linked chapter? The whole thrust is he's trying to defend art as an alternative to the scientific and manifest images of the world, i.e. defend it as a layer at which we can speak "romantically" or "passionately" and still "truthfully."

 

[WashYourHands]

Do your homework Leo. Did you read any of the linked chapter? The whole thrust is he's trying to defend art as an alternative to the scientific and manifest images of the world, i.e. defend it as a layer at which we can speak "romantically" or "passionately" and still "truthfully."

 

[sus]

Re-muted for being inane and predictable.

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[Clinamenic]

A dry, unromantic perspective on life.

Perhaps that’s been your impression of science, but science for me has been an ineffably wonderful chain of revelations.

 

[entertainment]

it's pretty interesting but I do think there's an annoying idiom of elegance in the way he writes

 

[wild greens]

I might be wrong but i dont think that smarmy white girl gif possesses the type of vibe R Kelly was thinking of, certainly not in the way Leonice or Theresa do

 

[entertainment]

I like it because it's ambitious, a naive sort of stoner quality to the project but with a much higher resolution. Something you would never see in regular academia

 

[Clinamenic]

Perhaps that’s been your impression of science, but science for me has been an ineffably wonderful chain of revelations.

Just yesterday I watched a general audience seminar on general relativity and the theory around black holes, and the presenter gave such an intuitive explanation of things that I experienced yet another moment of grokking something I had for a while struggled to understand.

He used the concept of escape velocity to illustrate how/why black holes look the way they do, that as a massive body gets denser the escape velocity eventually exceeds the speed of light. Still a bunch of stuff I don’t grok yet, but moments like that are magical for me.

 

[entertainment]

Just yesterday I watched a general audience seminar on general relativity and the theory around black holes, and the presenter gave such an intuitive explanation of things that I experienced yet another moment of grokking something I had for a while struggled to understand.

He used the concept of escape velocity to illustrate how/why black holes look the way they do, that as a massive body gets denser the escape velocity eventually exceeds the speed of light. Still a bunch of stuff I don’t grok yet, but moments like that are magical for me.

can you give me a link to that mate?

 

[Clinamenic]

Our whole heterogenous and intersubjective fabric of reality is predicated upon billions of years of fiery thermodynamic development. If that is dry and unromantic then I suppose everything is.

 

[Clinamenic]

can you give me a link to that mate?

Sure, here it is. The first half is the lecture, and then a couple other graduate panelists come on for Q&A.

 

[Clinamenic]

Actually he used the term “escape speed” which at first I thought was a mistake, but then I realized that he was correct because in that scenario direction isn’t a factor really.

 

[entertainment]

Very disappointed in Dissensus this morning

I have a thought you might think is interesting that we could work at. Will see if I can put it into words soon. It might spell the rise of a new dissensus golden age.

 

[sus]

it's pretty interesting but I do think there's an annoying idiom of elegance in the way he writes

The first pages especially are clunky. Once you get past page 2/3, things get much smoother I think. He's just trying to force too much into one place