One of the (trivial, granted) ways the universe amuses me is that there
are two Sean Carrols, one of whom authored ‘Endless Forms Most
Beautiful’. I first heard of that book on a Friday morning at St.
John’s. The are both prominent in their fields (physics and biology)
and are very good popularizers.
At times, when my critical faculties are sleeping, I can imagine that at
some point the universe split and re-merged with itself and that the
Sean Carrols represent a glitch in the merging process. That would
explain that there are two of them, very similar in many ways and yet
distinct.
—Barry
On 19 Jul 2021, at 21:42, David Eric Smith wrote:
Anyway, what came up today was a Sean Carroll interview with Wolfram,
which fronts hypergraphs as Wolfram’s base-level abstraction. It
is a couple
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