Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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And so they applied the same reasoning to the cosmological model as they applied to their model of music.
And from that perspective, they could see things deeper than their contemporaries.
So in other words, they saw mathematics as a tool, but that tool was not limited to itself.
They always knew that there is more.
And they knew also that every pattern that you detect,
It's finite, but the world is infinite.
They actually accept that infinity.
They believe that infinity is real.
And if you discern a pattern,
great, you can play with it and you can use that.
It gives you a certain lens through which to see the world in a particular way, which could be beneficial for you to learn more and so on.
But they never had the illusion that that was the final word, that they always knew that it's not the whole thing.
So there is more.
There are more sophisticated patterns that could be discovered using mathematics or otherwise.
And I think that what happened was we kind of lost this other side of their teachings.
We took their numbers and their idea that you could use mathematics to discern patterns and to find regularities and to explain things about the world.
We took that and we ran with it.
And we kind of dropped the other idea that in fact, there is another side to it, which is kind of, to us now,
we say, oh, that's mystical.
But what does it mean, mystical, if it is something that helps you to make great discoveries?
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