We are built on axioms and those axioms are built different by all.
These are the statement I will try to not defend but assume true, one can verify these by observation and relative association but one must agree with them to understand what follows but even if one doesn’t agree with them for the sake argument assume them true and see what follows, you will not understand it because it won’t agree with your axioms but you are learn something that might change them if not today, someday.
- All being such from insects to humans have labels, association and reward systems built in.
- Reptiles and many more species and beings have all the above + built it reactions and some visual reactionary ability
- All mammals and many other species have all the above and the ability to make new connections for the same reward that is survival and some tend to fall more into being stronger habits than others. This is because they reward themselves in different proportions and every creature even within the same species tends to vary.
- Human have all the above but we have also evolved to recognize patterns and reward ourselves based on how vastly we can recognize patterns and we either revisit those patterns to get reward and we tend to find new patterns closest to the previous one, or in most of the cases we tend visit the same patterns or infinitesimally close one and sling them in a pendulum to end up in the same mean place
Humans, we have maths and what is maths?
Wherever there is structure there are rules and wherever there are rules we can play the game called mathematics.
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We recognize trees, plants and animals, of course we do, now see these are classes, and within trees, there are some that bear fruit, so there are sub classes, and even in those trees there are some who bear fruit and some don’t. See how we got there? All animals know there are classes but we have made sub ones and continued making sub ones more and more based on the earliest and most primitive axiom “The axiom of difference” that we use to the fullest. Now with the axiom of difference we naturally end up with the “axioms of union” , the group that have all or few of the same characteristics. These axioms are the building blocks of mathematics sets and collections with association and that are sometimes abelian(commutative) sometimes not, for maybe the right tree is more important( for shelter e.t.c) than the left tree and you can’t move the right tree to the left and call it the same even though they are the same trees.
Somewhere along the way we saw a need for another rule another axiom and we made it up, A man is robbed he is depressed sad, vengeful but he is robbed again and again but he is keeping a number a number in his head and when he gets his revenge he evens it by taking all that was taken from him, he made a negative number hence another axioms of mathematics the inverse and the people who were left unrobbed make the last axiom of addition the identity element.
Similarly we built the axioms of multiplication.
But as we seek patterns in things, we tend to of course want to seek patterns in our lives as well. And we start to learn patterns of behavior and we start adding more behavior to define different things following the same principle of union and difference. But how do we describe something on a spectrum with infinitesimally little difference or similarity to vastly different or similar. Okay so here we enter the world of spectrum and sensitivity. If you have studied linear algebra you can understand if you have vectors in n dimensions each of which represent a quality say you are looking for a pen some vector doesn’t meet but depending on how many meet you can almost certain what it is or completely uncertain and unable to relate it with anything. So if you look for a certain red pen and you see it that checks all the boxes and you find it but if you fall into wormhole to another dimension or experience god or something otherworldly you will maybe even be completely broken (Now I have 1 more reason to not believe in God and 1 less to believe in him) similar to case of unimaginable death of someone you love.
But the fun doesn’t stop here, there are implications. Of how important language is. People have different basic axioms for living their life and they want to live that life because they agree with those axioms, and they develop and learn vocabulary and try to make similar connections if not the same but with a different path to fall into same place of reward, a path they know means something to them, a pattern they know to be true.
But here is the fun part, their truth depends upon the axiom they have built throughout their lives and it means absolutely nothing to the next person. FUCK! That is why they can’t make friends or why most people don’t like mathematics because mathematics is all axioms and learning and playing with more and more axioms and their consequences. HELL right?
So I would suggest please please fall in love with axioms that are easy to reinforce. BUT that is why people tend to follow the herd because fucking hell herd is all about reinforcing each other.
So here is what I do and you are welcome to follow my herd but you wont get shit from me.
Learn, learn, learn anything and everything you can for it develops vocabulary to recognize patterns and if they are in maths because we all can understand the basic axioms we all can get to the same conclusion and but you canfind joy in all of learning even if you understand them relatively with different axioms built in your brain even if they make sense to no one else, things are relative, not absolute what means something to one doesn’t mean anything to next person so why can’t these patterns even in their isolation without need of validation mean anything, and once you start to learn them you make wild connections all the time between things that are things vastly different from each other and find deeper axioms (rendering the old ones as consequence of these new ones) and connect them because vectors sometimes can be infinitely far away in all dimension but they can meet in 1 dimensions and have a relation with the most unrelated things. reject the herd, but be in the herd, learn about the them without having an opinion about them for opinions are just invalidated vocabulary, and in my advice don’t gossip or be certain about anything until its self validated or at least close in a certain threshold of axioms which should be expended and again I say learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn learn. And remember all learning is just vocabulary.
