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cybernetics

The Desire of the Curve: Beauty, Entropy, and the Infinite Centre

Beauty is a trap you walk into willingly. You know you’re being played—by bone structure, by light, by the chemical theatre of your own brain—but you don’t care. You lean in. We all do. It’s the oldest con in the book and the only one we want to keep running. Cross-cultural psychology has been here […]

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mathematics

Why is Mathematics Difficult?

A curious revelation of logic, mathematics and physics is that the concepts themselves are never really all that difficult and can usually be quite rapidly grasped if the method of education is sufficiently powerful. The difficulty lies in acquiring an aptitude to intuitively understand and leverage the relationships between the symbols that are used to […]