Resources: Seminal papers
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The following seminal papers help understand some logical errors in certain frameworks of explanation.
The FlatLand animations and the original written novel aim to show the connection between thinking with representations of reality and geometry, which uses projection. Geometric projections are equivalent to mental perspective, and to modeling (likeness) – These are representations of what presents: they ‘work the same way’, have a ‘likeness’ in their properties.
Seminal papers to inspire you
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Resource 1: Sapolsky - Categories are convenient for remembering and evaluating, but they have limitations
Robert Sapolsky – lecture at Stanford: 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Resource 2: Gould - Ladders and Cones cultural icons
Stephen Jay Gould
Ladders and Cones: Constraining Evolution by Canonical Icons
Gould, Stephen J, ‘Ladders and cones: Constraining evolution by canonical icons’, in Silvers, Robert B. (editor), 1995, Hidden science, The New York Review of Books . New York, NY., pp. 37-68.
Resource 3: Flatland (1884) - on geometric dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott. 1884.
Resource 3b: Carl Sagan - animation about Flatland (popularisation 4mn22)
Resource 3c: The FlatLander's view of 3D, 4D, and 'extra-dimensional' - by The Lazy Engineer (popularisation)
The FlatLander’s view of 3D and 4D – by The Lazy Engineer
Part 2 – Visualising 4D geometry
‘Extra-Dimensional’ can be understood as ‘more dimensions’, but also as ‘outside the geometric constructions of Dimensions.
Resource 4: Panksepp - 7 sins of Evolutionary psychology
Panksepp J & J
Resource 5: Spinoza - On the amendment of the understanding
Resource 6: Husserl – Origin of Geometry. THIS IS CRUCIAL TO THIS RESEARCH
Edmund Husserl
This is an intractable issue that has concerned scientific philosophers for about two centuries. These days, the beginnings of geometric abstraction concepts is traced back to about 7 years old (about the time of adrenarche), but the ‘origin’ or why or how we have such images in the mind is still not clarified in scholarly works. This can be related to observations that people with autism are more interested in geometric shapes than human faces features. Women also describe pain with more graphic language than men, typically focusing on the sensory aspect, whereas men focus on events and emotions. The Animated Geometry presented on this website offers a new approach on the biological origin of geometry, and the reason for its appearance correlated to the activation of advanced survival mechanisms.
Resource 7: Wigner – Unreasonable effectiveness of Maths
E. Wigner
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
This helped me trace a deeply hidden assumption. Since 1960, mathematics have proven to also have unreasonable effectiveness in the human domain, in social sciences including economics – in modelling the patterned behaviours of societal humans. It is therefore now clear that physical sciences, social sciences, economics and mathematics are manifestations of a common phenomenon – “civilised society”. They represent it in different ways, but all based on mathematics, its more abstract expression.
Then the question is, what represents what is not included in society, and behaviour that is not considered civilised – biology of wilderness for example?
Resource 8: Tolan – Is it a cheetah?
Stephanie S. Tolan. 1996. Is it a cheetah?
Cheetah like, yes, but where is the care of the biological body?
Transcript of Sapolski video
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