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Origin of quantum mechanics in diagonal method, from Carlo Rovelli's Helgoland:

"Heisenberg's idea is to write all the quantities which describe the movement of the electron -- position, velocity, energy -- no longer as numbers, but as tables of numbers. Instead of having a single position x for the electron, we have an entire table of possible positions X: one for every possible leap. ..."

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Read this very carefully boy

You are sitting on your old arse, nick, touching your clit every time you turn on your fucking PC. Take a walk mate. Have a look around you, sunshine. Is this absolute evil, this ABSOLUTE EVIL, WHICH YOU HAVE NURTURED AND DEFENDED IN THE FACE OF ALL LOGIC AND ETHICS, AND I'M TELLING YOU BOY, THE RESULTS ARE THERE TO BE OBSERVED. MAYBE IF YOU "COME BACK" FROM "CHINA" YOU'LL REALISE WE'RE IN A BIT OF A MESS. BACKTRACK ACCELERATIONISM IN PUBLIC, OR I WILL CONTINUE TO HUMILIATE YOU ON YOUR OWN BLOG AS LONG AS IT PLEASES ME.

TOMAS, OF THE HOUSES JOHNSON (WALLACE), THE HOUSE OF DUNN (ancient kings of Ireland), THE HOUSE OF BOURKE (installed by William the conqueror as the KINGS OF IRELAND), AND THE SINGING HOUSE OF WHISTLER. SUCK MY DICK

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Wondering if eastern countries would have arrived at a Wu Xing inspired pentamorphic compass.

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Drawing diagonal lines through pentagons seems needlessly complicated.

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Bitch

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Your "work" is 20% name dropping, the rest worthless synonym generative wankery with all the worthlessness and stupidity of a left wing undergrad ALSO trying to copy Marx's bombasticism and popularity

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Keep wondering about it you useless fool. Marx might be my bitch too, but at least he had some idea that pragmatics and philosophy might be bear some relationship to each other and human behaviour, in other words do something useful hack

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As I have been told, the alchemists were split between the five and four element system which was what I was referring to here. It could also be interpreted as the tension between the five external senses and the four inner senses. 5::4 has always been a very important lemur as has the relation between theory and practice. If you have anything useful to add, go ahead.

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where the hell does that come from, he mentioned nothing alchemic of the sorts

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What elements you believe do or don't exist is a major part of how you perceive the world. The distinction between the four and five systems (we can say Aristotelian or Platonic systems, respectively, with their rivalries notably playing out through idealists and materialists/pragmatists throughout the ages) is the addition of the element known as Aether, which most closely corresponds to the concept of "hype" in Land's philosophy, elsewhere as "loosh" or the Gnostic "spark". I am bringing up Alchemy because it is the process of transmutation, which deals with how these elements turn into one another. Again, I was originally pointing out that the Chinese had a five element system and might have built something that looked like a five-sided Chinese checker board for a graphing system because of the dominance of Wu Xing, which happens to be an Alchemical system. This would have been an example of philosophy (or Chinese "religion" or whatever you want to call it) impacting the development of data visualization systems, which are considered to be quite practical things. Unlike Tomas here. Apparently all they can do is speak harshly, one would wonder if they've ever done anything useful at all with that kind of behavior.

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Ok, but how is this not just the dialectic? It seems like all you've done is taken Hegel and repackaged him in mathematical/analytic school terminology. Is that the joke, this "continentalism in analytic terms" itself being a diagonalization/dialectical contradiction?

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Hegel’s dialectic is teleological, diagonalisation is not. Contradictions are part of the dialectic process for Hegel, whereas diagonalisation wants to explore contradictions and challenge paradoxes. Hegel premiers the synthesis, but diagonalisation keeps going.

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So exploring contradictions and challenging paradoxes isn't part of Hegel's dialect... You people are fucking ridiculous

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Oh did you block me little one, or do you not accept messages to your big black tower? Debate me you fucking bitch

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G'day you fucking coward,

Thanks for screwing with my fucking security forces, this is Tomas of the houses Johnson, Dunn, Whistler and Bourke. You mate not only manage to make pointing out the bloody obvious into near unintelligible borderline anti-newspeak (philosophically it IS newspeak, just to make sure you don't get the wrong idea here you fuckwit). Accelerate a bullet through your fucking temples mate, your fucking is not only not working it is the height of counterproductive. It will take a prospect with balls (or not, you fucking cunt) to finish this shit or get the ministry/ CIA or whomever to actually do something constructive. Part of what you ignore in your fucking disposition mate, is fucking basic psychology. Have a bunch of spies sit around fucking with other people, in the throne of God himself as judge of the human race, and yeah you know what they kind of turn into arseholes. So thanks for fucking it up old man. Die

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What would be an example of the diagonal method at play in the life sciences?

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Friston's free energy principle (diagonalizing between organicism and mechanism) especially in its usage by Levin and Fields.

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