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HAPPY 300TH BIRTHDAY
To the one and only: father of modern philosophy, Copernicus of the metaphysical, pinnacle of the Western Enlightenment, and one who “dared to know” (sapere aude), Immanuel Kant. May his Transcendental Idealism guide us forward. “Die menschliche Vernunft ist ihrer Natur nach architektonisch” (Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A474/B502) Human Reason is by nature architectonic.
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Semiclassics
Semiclassics is a regime where things look quantum but can be computed classically. I talk about this in what follows based on this paper by Dirac. The point of this post is to demonstrate that semiclassics doesn’t need any appeal to quantum dynamics, only quantum ontology. It is of course important though that regular quantum…
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But what really is symmetry? (Apparent vs. Actual Structure)
First post in a while: a fairly short one on some thoughts I had about symmetry. As I see it, symmetry is an artifact of us considering apparent instead of actual structures when analyzing systems. I talk about this and various examples. There are two other stories about symmetry I also hope to cover in…
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