Found this weird and interesting book called Diagr...
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Found this weird and interesting book called Diagrammatic Immanence. Thought you guys would be interested. It discusses Category Theory as a good diagrammatic setting to discuss the philosophy of Peirce, Deleuze, and Spinoza: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-diagrammatic-immanence.html Yet to give it a read, but such a visual+interaction oriented exposition I think will make CT much more accessible for computer engineers/scientists to prod around and see the ideas from many perspectives, rather than the incants hidden under layers of runes projected in your minds eye theory it is right now.
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@Prathyush - you wouldn’t be the same Prathyush w the most exquisite lambda calc, formal systems, and notation collections, would you?
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In the middle of Jonathan Blow's recent speech he shows off a game he was working on 10 years ago, a kinda random abstract puzzle of bending lines that would by the end magically leave the player with an intuition for particle physics and Feynman diagrams.
Strange that the PDF costs £70 (same as hardcover) but the epub costs £20 (same as paperback). I'm considering purchasing the epub, but if somebody has done so I'd be curious if the typography seems degraded, as sometimes happens for graphics-heavy publications.
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i have a friend who ended up a math major after reading a book by badiou on set theory and marxism so this is right up my alley haha
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Category Theory, Spinoza, and Peirce? Ah man! I want to get to that.
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@Alan Laidlaw Yeah, that happens to be me.
@Kartik Agaram I have been tracking down diagrammatic notations for sometime and there’s some strange ideas lurking there, like most computational artifacts (lets say logical flow of electricity to point to a relatable example) seems to be tracing logical pictures (think the Boolean lattice walks). There’s some kind of deep sense in which diagrams conduct the world around us, thought articulation is beyond me at the point on exactly how. Needs a sound theory, which is what I think Peirce and Gestalt philosophers attempts to ground with their work. And CT as the emerging process theory that binds geo, alg, logic, and topology, I think it is a good setting where this can be expressed.
@Garth Goldwater I happened to find out recently that Husserl was trained originally as a math major. Also, I went on to trace history of logic during these searches and happened to find a lot of people who affirm Leibnizian thinking that a philosopher should be a mathematician.
@wtaysom Would love to hear your opinion if you read it.
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@Prathyush chances are slim to none. 😉 But it will sit on my desktop here, mocking me. 💪
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