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Comment on Mathematics itself is on fire

BenRayfield Tue, Aug 31, 2010
Beauty is a mathematical object


Yes. I created a small software that derived an approximation of that math object from the least biased source of data on Earth, Wikipedia. Details at these 2 threads:
Getting the data:http://spacecollective.org/benrayfield/6201/Oversimplify-to-complicate
Using the data:http://spacecollective.org/benrayfield/6240/Wikipedia-Brain

Beauty FROM_Art FROM_Aphrodite FROM_Artist FROM_Aesthetics FROM_Celebrity FROM_Entertainment FROM_Mathematics FROM_Postmodernism FROM_Photography FROM_Perception FROM_Recreation FROM_Romanticism FROM_Harmony FROM_Sewing FROM_Lakshmi FROM_Waist FROM_Ars_Poetica TO_Aesthetics TO_Ancient_Greece TO_Animal TO_Art TO_Charisma TO_Charles_Darwin TO_Entertainment TO_Fashion TO_Gastronomy TO_Harmony TO_Health TO_Intelligence TO_Japan TO_Koine_Greek TO_Mathematics TO_Paul_Klee TO_Perception TO_Person TO_Poetry TO_Postmodernism TO_Recreation TO_Renaissance TO_Romanticism TO_Sculpture TO_Wikiquote TO_Wiktionary TO_Work_of_art


You can see the Beauty math object interacting with the other math objects in this picture. You can also see the Soldier math object attracting the Bone math object. As Beauty gets stronger, Soldier gets weaker. That level of accuracy is only possible because Wikipedia is so unbiased.


If Max Tegmark's mathematical universe theory is true (which this thread is about), then these math objects are not just approximations of reality; They are a map of part of the universe. They are reality. For example, there is a path from this physical location to the idea of triangle or the idea of beauty or anything else you can define with math. The universe equals all of math/abstractions/etc. This is not a new idea, but Max Tegmark formalized it into scientific papers. For example, its very similar to Taoism and Nihilism.