“You’ll get results, Inspector, by always putting yourself in the other fellow’s place, and thinking what you would do yourself. It takes some imagination, but it pays.” – Sherlock Holmes
“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing…It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.” – Sherlock Holmes
New way of looking at a problem is equivalent to finding a new problem
Time and space were deemed the most fundamental fabric of reality until superseded by the theory of general relativity and quantum physics.
What are the fabric of reality we take for granted currently?develop
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- It’s about how it could’ve been otherwiserevisit
- 4-1a4b5a Maybe consciousness is seeing your thinking mediated on some other physical form, realizing that it could’ve been put otherwise (and optionally you improve upon)
- 10-2g2e9 Abstractions are corrected by realizing how ‘it could’ve been otherwise’
- 13-5b1c Saving is fundamentally about foregoing things that could’ve been done—it’s about choosing one specific timeline over others
- On contingency
- 1-2g2t3f Contingency can be only realized when you evoke the multiverse
- 3-1c3c3a1 Don’t be so attached to anything because almost everything is contingent. Assume no self.
- 5-1b1a2b Anything physical can’t do away with its own contingency
- 12-1 Surfacing contingencies (ゆらぎ)
- 12-1d Flexible media will surface contingency
- 12-1e Nothing is necessary = Everything is contingent