Hi john Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University nthomp...@clarku.edu https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 2:53 PM John Kennison <jkenni...@clarku.edu> wrote: > My name is John Kennison. and In have been receiving intriguing emails > from Friam. However, I am now bogged down in several other pursuits and I > do not have the time to keep track of the provocative issues that are > discussed in Friam. > > So, I would now regretfully like to stop getting emails from Friam. How > dom I dom this? > > --John Kennison > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of glen < > geprope...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, November 1, 2024 11:45 AM > *To:* friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [EXT] Re: [FRIAM] 6 to 1, 12/2 to the other > > I suggest you are the most qualified to answer your own question. You > might start with the Wolfram Physics pages. E.g. > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wolframphysics.org%2Ftechnical-introduction%2Fbasic-form-of-models%2Fthe-representation-of-rules%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920617296%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cNIhIAVP0zBi%2FQ6tDw%2BL387Q3k71YErtG522qtFK3DE%3D&reserved=0 > <https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/basic-form-of-models/the-representation-of-rules/index.html> > > On 10/31/24 11:29, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Some of you know that in my last position at Carnegie Mellon I was > working on causal reasoning. We made a distinction between probabilistic > causation (smoking causes cancer) and actual causation (dropping the bottle > caused it to break). In the former case we used graphical models, > specifically parameterized Bayes networks to model the causal relationships > among a set of variables. In the latter case a simple directed graph > suffices. In the Wolfram, Gorard, Sorkin work do they make this > distinction? > > > > Frank > > > > --- > > Frank C. Wimberly > > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > > > 505 670-9918 > > Santa Fe, NM > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 8:46 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com < > mailto:geprope...@gmail.com <geprope...@gmail.com>>> wrote: > > > > Since we're talking about Sabine and anastomosis, I found this video > interesting" > > > > This Theory of Everything Could Actually Work: Wolfram’s Hypergraphs > > > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F-yzdjziS-bo%3Fsi%3Dw5av9XcTUqjodJ5V&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920640424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a0cpCUINGfmEDGMOGAFFmzOz2DSeVHahwU9rqmri6lI%3D&reserved=0 > <https://youtu.be/-yzdjziS-bo?si=w5av9XcTUqjodJ5V> < > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F-yzdjziS-bo%3Fsi%3Dw5av9XcTUqjodJ5V&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920656233%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6TAcNhbfFnPfVq3ccx%2FEk1uSXVUcEXO%2FgINngeAXmIk%3D&reserved=0 > <https://youtu.be/-yzdjziS-bo?si=w5av9XcTUqjodJ5V>> > > > > "The idea that the laws of physics are a sort of computation has a > rather basic problem. It's incompatible with Einstein's theories of general > relativity and it's not a small mismatch. You see, any type of computation > works in steps. If it doesn't, then calling it a computation is really just > a weird way of talking about the laws of physics that we already use. A > computation has some sort of update rule. [snip] The problem with this idea > isn't just that Einstein's theories don't use graphs. But that we know you > can't use graphs to even properly approximate them. The gaps in the graphs > and the updates in time steps can't be hidden away. They will always be > observable. And we haven't observed them. [snip] As a consequences, you > can't approximate general relativity with a graph while respecting all its > symmetries." > > > > She then mentions her paper: A No-go theorem for Poincaré-invariant > networks < > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1504.06070&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920671545%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=54PKNyAEmTECO5YrmnT%2Bbatv4%2FNSwG0mllOGpt3NOGU%3D&reserved=0 > < > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1504.06070&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920691394%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5hwIQAE9WqKt5%2Fpj9Wqsm2paU0jn2JV6JB1J0DFsd94%3D&reserved=0 > <https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06070>>>, which I'm incompetent to read. She > continues: > > > > "The new Wolfram approach uses what they call 'hypergraphs'. Instead > of just using graphs to describe space-time and particles in them, they > collect these graphs into groups. So the hypergraph is really a collection > of graphs. The points in this graph describe space-time and can also > describe matter in the space-time, depending on their properties. But the > lengths in the hypergraph are not physical. They have no length. They just > quantify the relations between the points. And since they have no length, > there's no problem with them becoming shorter or longer for different > observers. It's actually a clever idea. I had an exchange with the guy who > works for Wolfram Research who did most of this work, I think, Jonathan > Gorard, in 2020. I came to the conclusion that this is indeed possible. But > it's been done before. This is exactly the idea an approach called 'Causal > Sets' put forward by Rafael Sorkin. As the name suggests, in this approach > space-time is a set of points, like > > the points in the hypergraph. And these points have causal > relations, which you can depict with arrows. So that gives you a graph. And > this will, indeed, respect Einstein's theory. If you look at what they've > [Gorard et al] been doing after that announcement in 2020, they've worked > more on the relation between Wolfram's hypergraph and causal sets. Most of > this work has been done, it seems, by Jonathan Gorard. He has also looked > at how to use that to do general relativity and how it prevents > singularities, which the causal sets people never figured out how to do. > [snip] However, the causal sets people already showed that it's possible to > put discretized versions of differential equations on these graphs. So > maybe it isn't as difficult as it sounds. So when I look at this today, I > honestly think this research program is going very well. And I think it's > about time that physicists pay a little more attention to it." > > > > [Gorard et al] > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fhl%3Den%26user%3DItG_Nz0AAAAJ%26view_op%3Dlist_works%26sortby%3Dpubdate&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920706686%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0p3tVGgwaKT70IRDOqDDWRKpuJs1HHcqKCrvDkgID%2Bk%3D&reserved=0 > <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ItG_Nz0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> > < > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fhl%3Den%26user%3DItG_Nz0AAAAJ%26view_op%3Dlist_works%26sortby%3Dpubdate&data=05%7C02%7Cjkennison%40clarku.edu%7C7ee9881cb11c44c334d408dcfa8c5fcd%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C0%7C0%7C638660730920722019%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ldx9xvQnNdtCZv6rUQEX3JRvcoYLjG4ARRHI%2FPRUnuA%3D&reserved=0 > <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ItG_Nz0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> > > > > > > > > On 10/30/24 17:21, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com < > mailto:geprope...@gmail.com <geprope...@gmail.com>> <mailto: > geprope...@gmail.com <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com <geprope...@gmail.com>>>> > wrote: > > > > > > The idealists will never stop idealizing and then reifying > their ideal. To Engineer is Human. But those of us who know (or merely > confidently believe) reality is made up of a diverse non-wellfounded set of > ... what? ... urges? ... nano-agents? ... IDK, whatever, will always > anastomose that built environment ... or at least reclaim it like a hermit > crab squatting in a tin can. > > > > > > > > > I like the visual and deeper concept, Glen. A kind of wuwei > attitude. > > > > > > sequeing impermanence of political structures to over-reified > software: > > > > > > Today at lunch, John Zingale lamented that the residence time of > code in the system seems to be decreasing. 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