This is such a great quote. There is a similar line in the book "Creation: Life and How to Make It." The author says that causality is a web, not a chain.
Yes, my thoughts follow a web pattern, not only a chain! There are chains of thought, but they jump all over the place, even in loops. And it all ends in philosophy [0].
Hyperlinks on the web are one-directional. But links are much stronger if they're bidirectional. That's possible using backlinks, or in real life, by saying "thank you".
Thank you planet-and-halo for reminding us of the web analogy. Thank you zR0x for relating the abstract maths to tangible reality. Thank you tarxzvf for suggesting that everything is pattern matching (I agree, matter & energy are finite, it's only the connections between them that we can create).
I believe that these connections hold true for dad jokes, social situations, software, maths, physics, chemistry, biology... every created thing. Let's thank our creator, and all the teachers who helped us grow.
Are there under 6 degrees of separation between everything in the universe? Or is it as few as 3.5 degrees? [1]
Hyperlinks on the web are one-directional. But links are much stronger if they're bidirectional. That's possible using backlinks, or in real life, by saying "thank you".
Thank you planet-and-halo for reminding us of the web analogy. Thank you zR0x for relating the abstract maths to tangible reality. Thank you tarxzvf for suggesting that everything is pattern matching (I agree, matter & energy are finite, it's only the connections between them that we can create).
I believe that these connections hold true for dad jokes, social situations, software, maths, physics, chemistry, biology... every created thing. Let's thank our creator, and all the teachers who helped us grow.
Are there under 6 degrees of separation between everything in the universe? Or is it as few as 3.5 degrees? [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
[1] https://research.fb.com/blog/2016/02/three-and-a-half-degree....