Category: One
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Quartets, music, One...
String quartet players continuously adjust the timing of their notes to stay in sync. But exactly how players do it has been unclear. New data tracking millisecond-scale corrections suggests that some ensembles are more autocratic — following one leader —while other musical groups are more democratic, making corrections equally. Researchers had two well-established quartets play…
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule…
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Russia, economy, One.
Western governments are spluttering with indignation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula – but in an economically interconnected world, spluttering may be their only response. US President Barack Obama promised "consequences", and European Union foreign ministers rushed to emergency meetings. "But there's nothing we can do," says Keir Giles of Chatham House, an international…
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Mapping a brain. Infinite level of analysis. Monads. Decisions...
Mapping the human brain is a noble goal, but a rather ill-defined one. It’s like making a map of the United States. You could just show political boundaries and the locations of cities. Or you might depict geographical features like mountains and rivers. Or transportation routes, like interstate highways and railroad tracks. You might even…
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Soap bubbles, patterns, One, infinite...
Soap bubble storm. (1) Self-repeating patterns are everywhere. The unity of the cosmos cries out its existence in every aspect of the cosmos, in every detail we see. But we are just too reluctant to acknowledge it. The idea seems absurd. Could everything be One? Could we be seeing the same things over and over…
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