Saturday, August 26, 2023

Some observations

I see mathematics relying upon:
1/x
√x

This observation also falls prey to my interpretation of numerous glazed-over math presentations. 

I am finding that much of what mathematics does is to calculate or analyze plots in a three dimensional volume.

Finally, as we've been beholden to 2 dimensional graphical means for representing thought/calculation/analysis so long, the big discoveries in the past century have been attempts to transcend those 2 dimensions while working within them representationally.

Computers allow us to serially compute vast points in three dimensional volumes in order to test hypotheses about the probabilities represented by those points in space as a matter of a behavior imputed to those points. 

Quantum computing represents the next step in modeling points in a three dimensional volume such that it need not go through step-by-step modeling, via math, of points in three dimensional space but can do multiple points simultaneously, thus adding 'volume' as a baked in feature of its compute cycle. 

Classical computing is flattening of calculation to logic gates on atoms-thick wafers to maximize serial calculations within two-dimensional space. Quantum computing pushes through that miniscule control arena of two dimensions into quantum space, thus opening up multi-matrix calculation by having qubits masquerade as the control conditions for information. 

This is a mess, and I will return to it. 

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Sartre on the human investment absorbed by material objects

"In this way, society in its most concrete movement is shot through with passivity, and unceasingly totalises its inert multiplicities and inscribes its totalisation in inertia, while the material object, whose unity is thereby recreated, re-discovered and imposed, becomes a strange and living being with its own customs and its own movement" (p. 169).

Later Sartre writes, "This is not a metaphor. To preserve its reality as a dwelling a house must be inhabited, that is to say, looked after, heated, swept, repainted, etc.; otherwise it deteriorates. This vampire object constantly absorbs human action, lives on blood taken from man and finally lives in symbiosis with him. It derives all its physical properties, including temperature, from human action. For its inhabitants there is no difference between the passive activity which might be called 'residence' and the pure re-constituting praxis which protects the house against the Universe, that is, which mediates between the exterior and the interior." (p. 169)

from Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 1"