I’m working through the implications of discrete space and am starting to build some intriguing intuitions. I am trying to reduce the physical world down to a bunch of geometric atoms changing state—essentially, to a grid of voxels. I don’t claim the following is true, only that it’s a coherent way to explain a bunch …| Steve Patterson
Immaterial things are hard to understand, and taking their existence seriously has been unfashionable for centuries. Modern materialists have gotten comfortable simply defining them or laughing them out of existence. But since my philosophical conversion to Platonism, I now think that immaterial stuff way more important than material stuff—and there’s even a meaningful sense in which …| Steve Patterson