mister_monster on Nostr: This might interest you. ...
This might interest you. https://aeon.co/essays/a-new-field-theory-reveals-the-hidden-forces-that-guide-us
There's a lot going on here, and there's a lot of not very popsci (because popsci is dead) research that ties into this free will, decision making and creativity stuff. Particularly besides what I linked I don't know if you have heard of something called assembly theory, but it is being formalized primarily by a chemist named Lee Cronin and an astrophysicist named Sarah Walker, and while the theory itself is pretty formal and they don't venture into anything too crazy, the pair each have very interesting personal opinions on what is going on underneath it all. Lee Cronin in particular has expressed the opinion that invention may be a temporal perturbation, that is, an interaction with the future. I tend to think hes on to something there, though maybe not necessarily entirely correct. They're both very brilliant people.
My personal pet hypothesis on this topic is that we don't clearly understand time, maybe even we are neurologically incapable of it, but that creativity, invention, decision making interact with time in a way we don't really understand but intuitively feel and frame in ways that seem obvious to us without articulating them clearly. I'd like to try to understand it if possible, and do work on understanding the ideas as best I can.
There's a lot going on here, and there's a lot of not very popsci (because popsci is dead) research that ties into this free will, decision making and creativity stuff. Particularly besides what I linked I don't know if you have heard of something called assembly theory, but it is being formalized primarily by a chemist named Lee Cronin and an astrophysicist named Sarah Walker, and while the theory itself is pretty formal and they don't venture into anything too crazy, the pair each have very interesting personal opinions on what is going on underneath it all. Lee Cronin in particular has expressed the opinion that invention may be a temporal perturbation, that is, an interaction with the future. I tend to think hes on to something there, though maybe not necessarily entirely correct. They're both very brilliant people.
My personal pet hypothesis on this topic is that we don't clearly understand time, maybe even we are neurologically incapable of it, but that creativity, invention, decision making interact with time in a way we don't really understand but intuitively feel and frame in ways that seem obvious to us without articulating them clearly. I'd like to try to understand it if possible, and do work on understanding the ideas as best I can.