Mathematics as Hidden Reality - Edward Frenkel, Ph.D.

"There's a secret world out there. A hidden parallel universe of beauty and elegance, intricately intertwined with ours. And it's invisible to most of us."
Imagine that you had to take an art class in which they taught you only how to paint a fence or a wall, but never showed you the paintings of the great masters. Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. Edward Frenkel wants to open this secret world to all of us because it can teach us so much about the mysteries of the Universe. In this talk, he weaves the discovery of math with his personal journey, addressing the existential questions of finding out who we are; of truth, courage, and passion.
Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored three books and over eighty scholarly articles in academic journals, and he has lectured on his work around the world. His KZbin videos have garnered over 3 million views combined.
Frenkel’s latest book "Love and Math" was a New York Times bestseller and has been named one of the Best Books of 2013 by both Amazon and iBooks. It is being translated into 14 languages. Frenkel has also co-produced, co-directed and played the lead in the film "Rites of Love and Math" (2010).
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[@jimgunning1827]

This man is my new hero. Never look up to anybody, never look down on anybody, stay humble. I have just contradicted myself ! !

[@Naeuio]

When I discovered Edward and his ability to speak beautifully, I decided to seach him out and watch his lectures and videos of him. Then there was this. I was only expecting another talk about the beauty of mathematics and how it correlates with life.. but this was different. This reminded me of how Mathematicians, and lovers of mathematics are nothing but usual people that have dedicated their logic and reasoning more than any other sense, to achieve what is to normal people "superfluous". Thank you S.A.N.D.

[@jawed991]

Never ever thought about maths this way.. If I had known this when I was in school .. Probably would have fallen in love with the subject... Thought provoking.. Inspiring.. It will never leave me for sure.. Thank you so much

[@ernstvangelderen9537]

So beautiful. It made me cry. It sounds so insignificant. But those events in your life, his being that he could not find a rational( sorry, those are numbers as well) reason that he failed, can destroy you. It is about truth. Imagine that Edward Frenkel ended up a insurance salesman door to door! And that because at the tender age of sixteen someone tells you; " You're not good enough!". A lie told because someone has the view that somebody of Jewish descent can not possibly be good at mathematics. At that age, if you are very unlucky, it can kill you. And worst of all is that the thing you love, your passion, your haven even sometimes, is judged to be unfit for you. Abuse. It's like somebody telling you that you can not love your mother. "Why not?"; you ask, and the answer is;" Because I say so!". Thanks for sharing this on KZbin.

[@paingoingcrazy6997]

SPOILER ALERT: I didn't expect him to talk about childhood trauma in this talk, but I'm very glad he did. That point in the video was surreal for me, I couldn't believe what I was hearing (in a positive way). I relate to so many of the ideas in this talk. I don't want to live in an AI world that is just 1s and 0s, I want to live in a world of beauty and love. It was so wonderfully surprising to hear him talk about the heart, in a talk that I expected to be purely mathematical. I indeed forgot he was a mathematician, he is a lot more than that. I have had a traumatic life in a variety of ways, but the society we all live in does not allow us to address our feelings properly. I am expected to just bury my feelings and move on. My parents keep telling me to forget my childhood. They are trying to hide many things, but I can remember the bad feelings. I don't even know the full history of my traumas, but they exist nonetheless. It's so easy to fall into the trap of disconnecting from your emotional self and hyperfocus on the intellectual stuff, like many young men I've noticed. Society encourages us to become engineers, but never to learn about our own traumas. I used to watch these math videos obsessively, channels like Numberphile, long before I started reflecting on my own traumas. I never really understood the math concepts very well, which made me feel stupid, but I enjoyed listening to people like Mr. Frenkel talk. It was a way of escaping and avoiding my feelings for sure. If anyone is reading this comment, I want you to know that there all kinds of ways to suffer in this life. Trauma is more than just losing an arm for example. Don't let someone tell you that you have nothing to complain about. Nobody has the right to deny your emotions on your behalf, as people always did to me. It is my belief that we all have secret traumas which we have been expected to bury and forget - many of which are emotional in nature rather than physical, so society simply doesn't care enough to call it trauma.

[@sirprize5191]

I went hard on Peter Levine's waking the tiger book. I no longer can trigger the same shaking and tremoring response that is said to be healing. In contrast, I've just been extremely content, solid, and no longer carry much in the way of trauma. Healing rekindled my enjoyment of math and I improved a lot, had to start over math at 0 by the way. You gotta go hard at fixing this stuff. A million books exist. I've never been happier. It's all peaceful now.

[@lindajacobson1993]

Dr. Frenkel, you are amazing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, love for the mystery and your intimate story.

[@dnickaroo3574]

Extraordinary Real Communication. Truth is really needed at this time -- but it is a Gem smudged and denied that needs care and passion to bring it forth.

[@stuporstudio7582]

Enjoyed the hell out of this! Thanks for getting it out there.

[@sandymayer5486]

Thank you Edward for your straight from the heart words. Felt and appreciated. I "saw" you.

[@si12364]

Thank you so much for such a wonderfull spontaneity, love and courage...to tell the Truth and talk in It's name!

[@idatong976]

Very moving. I learn that a brave soul conquering his fear and he becomes the better self of his own. Thank you so much for this.

[@stefanhansen5882]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you!

[@cindybalog7318]

What grace is this fine mathamatical mind.

[@sabersubrati2898]

The mathematical equations are beyond me, I must admit. However, what an inspiring and beautiful speech he gave. I did feel what he was saying! Bravo! We must never forget, however, that mathematics is just a descriptive tool as is language, and that we must reach beyond it in order to truly know and experience life. Peace to you all...Every one of you :)

[@anneseward3467]

+Saber Subrati Yes, like words, numbers are symbols, creations of that which gives rise to them - the I that is we.

[@harrisgebbie1038]

The symbols that you see on your screen when I type 1 2 3, they are symbols. What Edward and Martin Gardner are arguing is that the things those symbols represent, and you can only call them numbers, are not just symbols or a "descriptive tool". This is the way many mathematicians feel and it is something that most non-mathematicians do not seem to feel or understand.

[@madball247]

Thank you very much for the upload.

[@harmeetsokhi]

So compassionate.... Thanks Professor

[@bonnieroberts1799]

Stunning and liberating. Thank you.

[@Aloysiusb]

Wonderfully moving, thank you

[@reneoslizlok7216]

Great talk..it meant something to me..I felt it while understanding grew.

[@Tapecutter59]

Clicked on this because I'm a numberphile fan, this was something quite different and simply put, it was brilliant.

[@strangersound]

One of the great minds of the day. :)

[@Dani68ABminus]

that's what it's all about...thank you!

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

This dude is a hero.

[@dr.satishsharma1362]

Excellent... thanks 🙏.

[@cynthiabaker-smith6814]

Unexpectedly Magical => click " PLAY " worth. every. single. second.

[@TheseEyesGod]

Beautifully deep - not just about maths - or perhpas about maths on another, yet deeper level. It seems to disappoint some who want only maths - yet advita is not (overtly) mathematical. Guess it goes where some commenters aren't yet ready to go - which illustrates one of his points - about ppl trapped in mind, not yet comfortable going more deeply within - being in heart. Sad, that when I came here, of 33 views it had no thumbs-up and 2 thumbs-down. Here's hoping we can find our way more deeply within - this century NEEDS us to wake-up to something much deeper than mind - else we'll just recreate this mess that is our current "reality."

[@paingoingcrazy6997]

> Here's hoping we can find our way more deeply within - this century NEEDS us to wake-up to something much deeper than mind - else we'll just recreate this mess that is our current "reality." Amen to that!!! I don't want to live in a world that is purely 1s and 0s. I don't want to live in a world that is purely mind. How dry and utilitarian that would be, like our society is trying to create. I want to live in a world of love and beauty.

[@TheBig1dea]

I really like Edward Frenkel.

[@Joshua-dc1bs]

He's cute XD

[@raymondlai5]

Dear scienceandnonduality =), I would like to say, thank you, for taking the time and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family. I hope you have a nice day! =).

[@scienceandnonduality]

Thanks Raymond! :-) It's an honor and a joy to receive your comment!

[@thekulitsduomusicandadvent9336]

Love all the guests of SAND, brave experts and no matter their place in society or top credentials always have an unflagging support for humanity:) To all the inspiring SAND scientists and speakers, please come to Italy:))))

[@tinan5019]

I love this charming soul ❤ He can be my guru

[@ricodelta1]

Love this guy

[@globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493]

great guy!

[@websurfer352]

"The other world" out there is not one of stuff, but is a field underlying all things! Not something or other, but a field that is beyond such distinctions between things, and even between fields! An Absolutely Simple Being without any restrictions as to its mode of being.

[@spooky_gamer5172]

JAIME TAN godel

[@dfnuniverse2198]

BRAVO 🖤💪🏽👌✅

[@marcopelser192]

I like this talk a lot because of its rich mathematical comparisons... If you imagine an electron as a drop of water except this drop has infinitesimal intra-elastic properties that make this drop retain its original spherical and voluminous shape, it can be likened to an electron. When it crashes against the slit-instead of being in two places at once-the drop stretches and ripples like a bullet hitting a steel plate, only it then proceeds to snap and causes a static discharge visible in appearance much like lightning. The energy used to collide it with the slit has effective kinetic energy to sublimate the electron drop into many smaller drops, but here's the catch: what we perceive as discharge, a lightning bolt or a static bolt, is actually a discharge and then a recharge. The net effect? Conservation... Those smaller drops of the original electron bind with weaker electron radiation already present as an ever-pervasive medium permeating the universe. As it binds with smaller electron drops to re-establish its previous shape each drop recharges and seems to have multiplied in numbers. I know this because firing one electron at a time doesn't merely result in two electron patterns at the end but two or more per electron fired. Two or more, that is key to understanding it. Strangely, I think that when we smell the petrichor it happens because of the same reason. You see, when water evaporates it is the sun's kinetic energy that sublimates the water compounds and separates them with a contra-intermolecular force. Let's call this the invisible snap... The water rises due to the anti-gravity effect of having less mass to deal with and because the sublimation is an increase in kinetic energy within the substrate itself that conserves its own gravitational union, relative to the other substrates. Remember, this happened because of the, so called, invisible snap... But as soon as the deposition takes place, usually due to cold air far enough away from the sun, and insulated by the reflective properties of the newly formed clouds, we have two things happening: the rapid cooling of water-vapors, due to insulation from heat energy sources, and the rapid formation of attractive forces, due to conduction of kinetic energy being released as lightning below and sometimes above the clouds. We hear thunder and see lightning, which is that same kinetic energy from the sun that once sublimated the water and is now being released from the water-vapors in the sky. When the energy is released into the surrounding atmosphere we witness the visible, and no longer invisible, snap... this visible snap is due to the release, rather than absorption, of kinetic energy. Remember, no system is truly isolated, only to a negligible degree when we use indexes that supersede those negligible properties, for instance, a sky-scraper is built to withstand great forces of wind and gravity, and don't build it based on a consideration of how it will handle someone leaning against its walls or peeing on it. Those forces are negligibly insignificant. But with double-slit, what is negligible really? There are other electrons entering the system. That is why firing the one electron by kinetic collision against the slit is an act of sublimating the electron itself, an invisible snap occurs just as water is turned into water vapor, the electron radiates around the slit and binds with surrounding electron radiation invisible to the naked eye and all-pervasive in the universe, especially in systems we assume are isolated. As the electron deposits it seems to have doubled, or more, it seems to have changed its mind and become two different, or opposite, electrons. This is not mathematically the case, however... We know that this quantum leap is really just because the system contains electron radiation and isn't truly isolated. How do we account for the polar-opposed spin? We don't. The spin isn't really the exact opposite of the other, it's just a different spin... This is because when the electron snaps in the first place its sublimated parts obviously have different, and by the positioning of the slit, sometimes closer to opposite spins. Does this make quantum mechanics irrelevant? No, I think it gives us a more accurate, real depiction of what's really happening. Not the fairy-tale that it violates the laws of the universe. That's why I like this talk, it stay in touch with the mathematical modeling theory that helps us understand why anomalies take place is because we don't have a complete representation of the entire model, not because the anomalies are just incapable of being modeled... That's like saying a bridge isn't capable of being built just because we don't have its blueprints.

[@drakethorn1339]

2:29 AGH YES SOUL MATHS GO PROFESSOR

[@BlaQsaltMacphly]

"The work of the great masters"

[@opus66]

Maurizio I got it!!! The number 1 is transcendental and therefore infinite (this is the true non-dual state of 1) In mathematics, Euler's identity[n 1] (also known as Euler's equation) is the equality e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0 where e is Euler's number, the base of natural logarithms, i is the imaginary unit, which satisfies i2 = −1, and π is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. so given this 1 is infinite since it really equals the value -eiπ the number "1" that we use in math is an observational symbol that is finite by its very definition of the language of math (1 unit) the finite number "1 unit" make the infinite -eiπ become a duality when we call something one, we create the duality then and there we name the unnamable the tao the unit 1 is finite yet the real one is infinite since it equals eiπ this is why Riemann converges towards the number 1 this is why the universe looks like it is expanding and it truly is not (our own consciousness is making it expand) this is why the quantum waveforms are contracting when they are truly not (again,our own consciousness is making it contract) this is all based on the observation, not on the reality unit 1 is the finite duality the real number 1 is infinite and it equals -eiπ it is transcendental it is given by the mathematical equation 1= -eiπ Jeffrey Fidel 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) to Karl Jeffrey Fidel 3:57 PM (4 hours ago) to Maurizio, Karl In the philosophy of Plotinus and a number of other neoplatonists, The One is the ultimate reality and source of all existence. Philo of Alexandria (20 BC - AD 50) regarded the number one as God's number, and the basis for all numbers ("De Allegoriis Legum," ii.12 [i.66]). you see, we knew this all along, until someone decided to take a slice out of the whole and create the non-dual state!! love jeff Jeffrey Fidel 4:42 PM (4 hours ago) to mnovack2 Jeffrey Fidel 4:58 PM (3 hours ago) to Maurizio you see, we knew this all along, until someone decided to take a slice out of the whole to make his own human measurement of things that now have names (units) and thus create the dual state!! from tao te ching (verse 1) the tao that can be told, is not the eternal tao therefore the tao that "is told" is the "natural finite number 1 (dual state) - this is a human creation (like mathematics itself) to name the unnamable (i.e. one apple, one tree, one particle, one universe, etc.) the eternal tao is the transcendental number -eiπ

[@pennypocket5463]

Dr Frenkel and his mate Einstein🎸🎸🎶Rock on🎸🎶🎸🎶🌻🎶🌻

[@archangecamilien1879]

Something about this feels like a sermon, lol...the pauses, etc...maybe it's just me...there was another mathematician who sounded like a preacher to me the other day, lol...

[@sureshapte7674]

what perhaps prof.is trying to say is that the purely mathematical discription of reality(whatever that means) is impossible because by its very nature maths works by the process of abstraction which by defination leaves out something ,always and ever,and therefore reality will always and essentially be its mathematical discription plus whatever it left out

[@Gwunderi25]

Can't you say the same for all science, and even for our thinking?

[@sureshapte7674]

yes we can, in fact anytime we refer to something without being it we will keep leaving out something and thus fail to be cent percent right in the description. So it is easier to be a human being than to describe completely what human being is.

[@Gwunderi25]

Much easier, yes. We don't understand ourselfs but pretend to describe us completely and make a (possibly perfectionned) copy of ourselfs. It's like with the Titanic, they are deemed to fail because they see only the tip of the iceberg. LOL - I don't know the algorhitm for the Avatar, but I know the result: Tilt, tilt, tilt … Fortunately! Makes me shudder

[@user-jo9kb1ck7w]

"The system can only physically destroy you. If the system breaks you down as an individual, it is a sign of your own fragility. And the meaning of this system may be precisely in revealing this fragility, the essence of human nature, in the most complete way possible." (c) Joseph Brodsky I don't like this phrase because it's easy to acquit any evil. But I think it resonates with the story of Edward - it is virulent to experience such discrimination, but would he achieve this much without it?

[@fakename1250]

reality is a spherical vortex compression wave. where each crest and trough of the standing wave is your verse and inverse reality. the push pull of what is.

[@cvan7681]

The math humanity uses is so simplistic, its as though we are using a supercomputer as a footstool. We got it wrong early and continually chase our tails with basic numbers.

[@Elrog3]

So simplistic in comparison to what, oh great one? Please, reveal to us the truth!

[@xavierkreiss8394]

"invisible to most of us": indeed. Certainly invisible to me. To some of us, beyond very basic arithmetic maths is incomprehensible, you either "get it" or you don't. "Beauty and elegance" may exist within that system, but I fear that I'll probably never see it. Dr Frenkel says maths is a portal. Well, it remains closed to me and to many. Dr Frenkel has a pleasant personality, but I don't understand him.

[@orlinoflores]

only when i see the shadow shall i acknowledge light

[@opus66]

god bless you!!! i was not afraid i have died three times this life i was jesus, budda and now i am pure light and love

[@ichtube]

I'm glad to see a mathematician is talking outside of the closet of science.

[@somethingtojenga]

Only because mathematicians often go off the deep end, never recover from their own numbers driving them crazy, and have to frantically swim back to shore. You can totally hear it in this.

[@hadlevick]

The polydynamics of the movement generates pseudo-autonomy as material property, of the autogenous phenomenon; existing.(...) Simultaneous as my unidimensional variability... unidimensional variability = live-beings

[@CelestialInsights]

I have long understood that every single solid thing in our world, universe, is a part of structural mathematics... even a blade of grass, exists of around a mathematical equation, its length, depth, size, diameter...weight. yes, every single thing in this world, is made up of mathematics.

[@Elrog3]

That is false. A sport is not made up of its rules. There is no sport if you do not also have the players. It is, in fact, the players which are primary. There is no amount of mathematical description you can do that can make a blind man understand what it is like to see color. Clearly, math is not everything.

[@DreamWizard9]

Only because we invented mathematics. It's like putting a random line on a piece of paper and then stating: "what a beautiful piece of art!" But I guess that is the perspective our limited human brain has.

[@probablynotsatanic66]

So you think theorems are just arbitrary rules created by humans? You think Pythagoras just said, "Let's just make the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle equal to the square of the hypotenuse."? No. You need to have real insights that work to expand mathematics as a whole. The Pythagorean theorem wasn't just "invented" out of thin air; it was discovered. Math isn't as easy to create as drawing scribbles on a piece of paper.

[@user-tu1hh5nt4j]

Hm. Not much here about a hidden parallel universe of beauty and elegance but this little guy does have a powerful presence. I suppose that in itself is testimony to the reality of the person that recent science seems intent on denying.

[@AndreGhozland]

First was Logarythm...Then Silence

[@rizahoca]

He's handsome and charming. I hope he got some after the talk. I kinda watched it, are you happy now, KZbin algorithm?

[@chanpol321]

life is algorithm then to whom who wrote its? mathematician?

[@dlv5]

❤❤❤❤❤😢

[@naimulhaq9626]

Frenkel is absolutely right when he claims that maths is taught the wrong way. It is quite possible to teach number theory, Algebra, Geometry etc., and the connections between the different fields. And above all the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in explaining reality and the metaphysics of mathematical objects.

[@opus66]

of course -eiπ (transcendantal non-dual 1) is nothing but an infinite wave (i.e. light) therefore, once again the transcendental one is an infinite wave (as opposed to the man made unit 1 which is finite natural number placed on a number line by man between 0 and 2) the speed of light (the constant c) is is nothing more than our limited ability to perceive electromagnetic radiation in the physical realm any particle that cannot absorb or emit electromagnetic radiation is therefore non-physical (invisible) and potentially spiritual the wave itself disappears when you "ride at the same speed as the light" and therefore enter the non-dual state since from a relative point of view, there is no more motion since you are traveling at the exact speed of light (you become -eiπ) the more you observe the light the further behind you fall of the light and therefore you create the duality and the light "redshifts" and therefore the universe expands in order to see into the non-dual, you must create a new non-dual state by smacking conscious (physical light emitting or absorbing) particles together to form observable electromagnetic radiation (a new dual state from a once non-dual state) particles then "appear" into your consciousness the actual moment the measurement is made (this is the waveform collapse) you cannot view the particles being formed any faster than the speed of light they emit and therefore you can never know the true nature of the non-dual state (since the receptor in your eyes or any other detector require an additional interaction with the produced electromagnetic radiation) everything is potential until the interaction occurs with the detector device at the moment of detection, the wave function collapses

[@purpleglitter9596]

Thank you that was helpful. Can you recommend any reading that can help me learn more what you wrote here. Thanks 😊

[@websurfer352]

One unfortunate trend in science nowadays is the tendency towards reductionism, the idea that we can be no more than the sum of our constituent parts! But what if the human being is consists of more than just the corporeal aspect, but is instead a system of a physical, and a immaterial, unquantifiable part? What if our immaterial selves are infinitely more significant than our corporeal selves?

[@PINGPONGROCKSBRAH]

+websurfer352 Well that may be true, but I don't think mathematics can do much to shed light on these kinds of propositions.

[@vincentzevecke4578]

I agree with you

[@JohnBoysGold]

Definitely.. John Lennox has some very illuminating things to say about this.

[@austinperkins1986]

Spends an inordinate amount of time, not saying much. Saying some and then repeating it much. I became bipolar bored at 3:25 and left.

[@hnnagarathna7286]

Was this guy on numberphile I had seen him once 🙄🙄

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Is this Max Tegmark's evil twin?

[@ZZZZXXXXXZZZZ]

My ADHD just couldn't handle this. Maybe should be sped up double speed~

[@PrashVerse]

Life is probability

[@WhispersOfWind]

"We G00gle".

[@nishantberry4436]

Math cannot explain qualia or consciousness.

[@colinjava8447]

+Nishant Berry How do you know?

[@chukkas9]

+Nishant Berry it is very hypocritical to say that math cannot explain a certain subject, for everything is just a physical manifestation of mathematics

[@nishantberry4436]

Prove it. Quantify my feelings such as guilt, or give me the mathematical formula of sentience, or tell me the mathematical terms for compassion and revenge.

[@dfhfdgfgdfshdfhe8257]

get the f off from these intellectual discussions nishant

[@dfhfdgfgdfshdfhe8257]

Sinsearach watch "our mathematical universe" talk .. royal society and then we will chat. our universe IS methematics

[@janesmith167]

This presentation left me with a bitter-sweet experience. I can appreciate his passion and knowledge on Mathematics (I myself are passionate about math). BUT... he has no credibility to philosophize and throw the words "art, love, intuition, emotions, etc..." in the same subject without any expertise on Neuro & Cognitive Science. Without certain molecules in the brain, one cannot laugh at jokes. Unbalance of certain chemistry in the brain makes a person hallucinates, seeing angels, ghosts and demons. Aggressive/destructive behaviors and Kindness/constructive behaviors are results of brain functionality. A paralyzed person cannot experience pain. Only at that moment when you understand brain functionality you have the credibility to philosophize >>> Does the pain exist if your nerve is not functioning? >>> If a tree fell in the woods and nobody was there, will it make a sound when no one is there to hear it? >>> Do things exist if there is no receptors to perceive it and no brain to interpret it? >>> Can an intellectually disabled person with down syndrome get a degree or Phd in mathematics? >>> Can you teach a dog (or a monkey) quantum physics? No doubt Edward has tremendous appreciation in awe regarding Mathematics, but he doesn't have the same level of understanding regarding neuro-cognitive science. Its a miraculous event, and, to appreciate that the sun rises and sets without ever understanding it. Ironically at the same time, a suicidal person does not experience the same miraculous event... well, to each his own I guess :)

[@nascorob]

Confront your fears Jane.....

[@dnickaroo3574]

Jane Smith but Neuro Cognitive Science is so primitive...

[@ilyakopyl]

All he was trying to say is to try to rationalize less and live more. When you listen to music, you do it for pure enjoyment, not for your ability to deconstruct it into several notes, voices & melodies that had been combined together by the composer/artist.

[@entwine]

He speaks with great emotion, but I must admit, I didn't understand his point.

[@101xaplax101]

he had a spiritual awakening and it changed him on a very deep level. he realized that he is more than just a mathematician and that more than just mathematics is mysterious and beautiful. all of life is this way.

[@Joshua-dc1bs]

I love Edward. He's really hot.

[@PrashVerse]

ॐ=mc^2 💖🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳💖

[@gretchenmcnelis5394]

So good!!❤️

[@elfootman]

He...........leaves a lot of......................unnecessary pauses.

[@louster35]

Ok so I watched the presentation. I'm not too sure I get the whole point. So the guy expressed his emotions and basically said u can't convince people about the wholly other. Well okay. Am I supposed to just accept that transhumanism is a bad thing just because he says so? I would like at least some rational argument other than the fact that it just feels wrong to him. Some cultures feel that modern medicine is bad or that a blood transfusion is bad. That doesn't exactly make it so. At the end of the day if the wholly other is real then we will go there after transhumanism and if not it will mean that we have replicated the wholly other over here in a sense so I don't see where the problem is.

[@TheKetsa]

This is about politics more than maths. godwin point near miss.

[@DavidAKZ]

yes, very hard to forgive (discrimination). Perhaps he should do some mediation.

[@Jesse1997Earth]

does anybody else think this guy is partially insane? Not trying to be a troll btw

[@steam_vortex2608]

If Nikola Tesla on a genius/insanity scale were full cream, this guy would be half and half; definitely a bit strange in terms of his thinking, yet brilliant none-the-less. (Also, how is the considered a math talk when for the last 10 minutes he covered abstraction and a story about his life?).

[@04dram04]

Insanity could be defined as seeing reality differently than the common person. But that doesn't mean they are wrong.

[@kbeetles]

Quite the contrary, he is the sane one.

[@Tapecutter59]

You haven't lived until you've dipped your toes into insanity.

[@jonnewman7843]

Let me ask you a serious question. Let's use the terms normal and different to stay conceptual. None of us were ever allowed to be normal. We were never allowed to find normal. We have always been different. Whatever chance you had to what you would be was influenced to be different through social interaction. It starts with your parents. They start off with molding you, and thus you were made different. Everyone trying to find themselves. I want to be unique, or I am unique. Never have we sought to be normal. We don't know what normal is for us. Think about it.

[@hidgik]

If the Moscow university failed you, it was entirely their loss.

[@Elrog3]

Entertaining speaker but he said a whole lot of nothing.

[@Elrog3]

The problem we have is to the contrary. There are so many who find some aspect of beauty and it drives them, which is great. But then they become caught up with chasing it and become blind and closed off to reality. The search for beauty has been holding us back.

[@christopherellis2663]

Why is this so boring?

[@bradsmith9189]

At around 32 min: Is everybody a "victim" these days? Is there anyone left out there that doesn't claim victim-hood on some level. Getting so sick of all the whining that seems to be so prevalent. Like Jordan Peterson says: "Life is Hard" ! Get over yourselves. Stop wallowing in self-pity.

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Maurizio I got it!!! The number 1 is transcendental and therefore infinite (this is the true non-dual state of 1) In mathematics, Euler's identity[n 1] (also known as Euler's equation) is the equality e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0 where e is Euler's number, the base of natural logarithms, i is the imaginary unit, which satisfies i2 = −1, and π is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. so given this 1 is infinite since it really equals the value -eiπ the number "1" that we use in math is an observational symbol that is finite by its very definition of the language of math (1 unit) the finite number "1 unit" make the infinite -eiπ become a duality when we call something one, we create the duality then and there we name the unnamable the tao the unit 1 is finite yet the real one is infinite since it equals eiπ this is why Riemann converges towards the number 1 this is why the universe looks like it is expanding and it truly is not (our own consciousness is making it expand) this is why the quantum waveforms are contracting when they are truly not (again,our own consciousness is making it contract) this is all based on the observation, not on the reality unit 1 is the finite duality the real number 1 is infinite and it equals -eiπ it is transcendental it is given by the mathematical equation 1= -eiπ Jeffrey Fidel 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) to Karl Jeffrey Fidel 3:57 PM (4 hours ago) to Maurizio, Karl In the philosophy of Plotinus and a number of other neoplatonists, The One is the ultimate reality and source of all existence. Philo of Alexandria (20 BC - AD 50) regarded the number one as God's number, and the basis for all numbers ("De Allegoriis Legum," ii.12 [i.66]). you see, we knew this all along, until someone decided to take a slice out of the whole and create the non-dual state!! love jeff Jeffrey Fidel 4:42 PM (4 hours ago) to mnovack2 Jeffrey Fidel 4:58 PM (3 hours ago) to Maurizio you see, we knew this all along, until someone decided to take a slice out of the whole to make his own human measurement of things that now have names (units) and thus create the dual state!! from tao te ching (verse 1) the tao that can be told, is not the eternal tao therefore the tao that "is told" is the "natural finite number 1 (dual state) - this is a human creation (like mathematics itself) to name the unnamable (i.e. one apple, one tree, one particle, one universe, etc.) the eternal tao is the transcendental number -eiπ