SIAM Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Prof. Reza Negarestani

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. hour, if you can. And the thing is that I actually only thought that, okay, I'm going to go with a really introductory stuff. And then hopefully…

• 00:24:28

  can be part of another sub model we are integrating with it and that doesn't require for us to commit to a fundamental model of the world or fundamental theory of the world it's just a constructive business that we do it out of both sheer constraints of how we respond to the furniture of the world and also out of pure…

• 00:41:14

  Here our sector of reality is a railroad. Two, only a robust concept of causal and functional explanation is capable of rendering the material intelligible and making intervention at any level of system possible. So, essentially, we need to have a kind of tantamount to the kind of combined form of going between…

• 00:59:40

  Number six, the multilevel view of complex structures. Look, complex structures, when we are talking about complex structures, think about that any sort of form of complexity that we are talking about in nature is a version of a structural stability. Structural stability, by that, we do not mean that the structure…

• 01:18:17

  This core is usually a mathematical series of mathematical formula, right? And we are talking about, and this mathematical formula obviously is enclosed within or molded by a certain kind of explicit scientific theory. And that explicit scientific theory, like for example, theory of gravitation in Newtonian sense…

• 01:35:55

  It's sort of pragmatic. It's not pragmatics in the vulgar sense, pragmatics in the linguistic sense, meaning of use, the context sensitivity of the concepts we use. So whereas pragmatics is for language, engineering is the pragmatics of material phenomena. And I think I'm way over my ration. Thank you so much. Thank…

• 01:51:10

  And so if you have any. I can't. For some reason, I did something to my Zoom. And now I cannot see it in chat. That happens, you know, to the best of us. The first question. The first question is, have you read Gravity's Rainbow? And if so, when, what. Gravity's Rainbow? Yes. Very, very. I mean, probably like. 17…

• 02:05:25

  Thank you. All right. I'm going to go ahead and now it was really nice spending that.