Eric Weinstein

And there's a weird way in which category theory can take something that seems to be an analogy and make it precise and powerful.

Right.

So you can have two systems that don't look the same and you spot an analogy between them.

And then you say, holy cow, there's an exact analogy.

mapping of one system onto another in which it was unexpected that those are the same structure.

So, for example, we're going to get into something about multiplication where Terrence has an issue with multiplication.

But to the best of my knowledge, you don't have an issue with addition.

Well, then one times one is what?

So then you just went into some...

There's a concept called logomaki, which is arguing over words.

And what you want is not to be caught.

If I can beat you in a word game or you can beat me in a word game.

You can beat me in a word game.

By the way, I heard you with B.B.

King where he was having trouble improv-ing on the spot.

And your mind just rescued him with a partial rhyme.

I really appreciate that because he's one of my favorites.

Yeah, it's B.B.

So...

Let's get to this flower of life because that's sort of the beginning of this exploration.