Sunday, February 25, 2024

New theories on the horizon?

If the prophecies are true, the age of the dialectic, where contradicting ideas clash to form boundaries, must be over. There must be a totally new theory arising from the recognition that boundaries are imaginary constructs, and truth flows freely without bound.
And the implications are vast. We humans today do not know how to form coherent thought systems without having conflicting forces turn on each other -
Capitalism -> competition, race to the bottom economics;
Biology -> survival of the fittest;
Law -> adversarial system;
Politics -> adversarial elections;
Education -> systematic gatekeeping of students through examinations
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(And maybe Maths.... law of excluded middle?)
Over-reliance on ideas like law of excluded middle gets us into these zero-sum situations where we are essentially set up to attack one another. We need more "why not both?" mindsets.
I might be too old to conceive of how things could possibly work without some kind of competition and survival of the fittest mindset. I hope to live long enough to witness the solution though.


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And I wrote a reply (to a reply of the above) that seems even more interesting so I'll save it here as well:


To be perfectly honest I do have an idea of what those new theories might look like. One possibility is some way to get a good answer without going through a process of computing (which is, essentially, the process of battling things out whether physically or informationally). This implies P=NP=O(1+output).
It's my intuition that "why are there seemingly lower bounds for computation, although we basically can't prove them?" is a fundamentally deep problem that involves more than thinking very hard about logic systems that we invented ourselves.
But how is this actually possible (in practice)? That's the part I don't think I'll be able to figure out...
That said, it's very important to realize that not being able to figure out how something works, doesn't mean it can't work. We haven't figured out how our brain works, but nobody is seriously suggesting that we can't think with our brains... so yeah. Stuffs are possible as long as we admit we don't know shit.

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