(He didn’t say anything complicated. A manifold is a mathematical construct using an arbitrary number of dimensions, where dimension means axis of measurement or cause or both. “Of course it’ll be described with a 4D manifold.” It’s the equivalent of saying the sky is blue.)
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@EricRWeinstein Eric: Restate that operationally (scientifically) instead of mathematically (platonically).
All: it seems impossible with the information we can obtain to deduce the fundamental geometry. This is why wolfram’s constructivist method has more promise (as we just saw in proteins).
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