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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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The Action Principle

In physics, there are two equivalent representations of trajectory. The Newtonian is where you write down the coordinates and its causal. And that's Siri. Hamiltonian formalism: You have to know exactly where you start and where you end. These are equivalent mathematical frameworks. Ted turned it into a language that heptopods speak. They see time in a different way than we do. It feeds into this story about an individual losing their loved one.

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