@C Langan I”m responding to a challenge, and I’ll respond to any challenge.
Yes, I read all your papers. They aren’t even vaguely challenging. And they are what every other intellectual claims: a series of conjectures with no causal relation. I’ve read people’s justifications of your work, and they are what I said, justifications of the recognition of the pattern not the cause.
I’m graciously arguing that you’re intuition is correct but your methodology failed, and the market has delivered its verdict that it’s failed.
You could correctly argue that I didn’t publish yet because unlike you or Taleb or any other borderline thinker, feels some strange need to proselytize before the work is complete when works on this scale of question historically take more than twenty years. Someone like Nietzsche has a simple insight, applies it across all manner of domains, but never understands it himself, and never brings about a conclusion only a critique. Those that publish early like Wittgenstein end up later in life self-correcting. Those that try but fail die unfinished like Bentham’s mission for the law. Some like Darwin and Maxwell succeed. Some like Einstein and Bohr succeed are heralded in their lifetimes but will be viewed in history as having created a half-truth that cost us the better part of a century. And some like Hilbert and Brouwer and Bridman fail to correct a cognitive trend. Some like Marx Boaz and Freud usher in almost two centuries of pseudoscience causing the worst superstition since the invention of the Abrahamic religions and the Abrahamic method of deceit.
The reality Is that I’m testing my own work against the fringe cases to determine if I can identify the failure of those edge cases and explain their error – and you’re one of them. And yes, testing your work allowed me to explain your failure. The only way to understand the bias or error in your thinking is to discuss it with you. Otherwise, I have to infer it – which I only have vague assumptions of.
All you can do otherwise is what you always do is evade and engage in ad homs to avoid challenges. All I have to do is stay with the central point: your unification rests on analogies not causalities. You’ve correctly identified the continuous relation between the universal structure of the universe across the scales right through to cognition, experience, and language. But you didn’t solve the underlying problem just as the mathematicians failed to solve the underlying problem what’s the grammar of that logic?
If you can’t state it operationally you don’t know it. If you could, you wouldn’t rely on non-causal, merely analogistic relations.
The universe isn’t complicated. What’s complicated is the collection of human cognitive biases that evolved to provide us incentive to continue with sufficient confidence to act in the face of a kaleidic universe, fragmentary knowledge, limited processing power, in a herd of others like us who have just as many malincentives to demonstrate the pretense of knowledge as we do confidence in our action. If you remove the error, biases, and methods of lying all you are left with is computation – meaning the universal human language of possibly testable actions, and a very simple grammar that continuously recursively disambiguate the universe.
God, if he existed or exists, spoke one word: evolve. So it’s not that I don’t understand. It’s that you can’t imagine my level of understanding. Or how trivial is man’s thought once possessed of it.