Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

(math diary)
Michael’s being a bit of a genius in DMs, explaining first principles of perception, disambiguation, and memory in mathematical terms.

Meanwhile my inner autist experiences an addiction response to the elegance of the order. My biz partner Jim Beebe (a mathematician) would sometimes avoid studying mathematics for the same reason: for some of us it’s heroin. 😉

I had an early discomfort with math and logic sensing something was wrong (it was, with both). Michael on his own, or the two of us together, I hope will work on the subject – though I doubt I’ll live long enough, and I’d be surprised if a reformation of math doesn’t finally happen after the first attempt in the first third of the 20th century. (Blame the failure on cantor, einstein, and bohr, as well as the entire philosphical community).

The problem with the foundations of math, logic, and physics is the same: idealism.