Ladder of Abstraction
- Math – helps us understand all worlds (universal language)
- Physics – interactions between the building blocks of forces
- nucleic force (strong force)
- electricity
- radiation
- gravity
- Chemistry – physics of the building blocks of our world (atoms)
- Biology – chemistry of the life structures of our world (cells)
- Neurology – study of cognition in biological creatures
- Social Sciences – implications of cognition (Sociology/Economics/Psychology)
Tenants of Math
- PEMDAS
Tenants of Physics
- Energy cannot be created or destroyed (mass too!)
- There is no “out” or “away” … everything goes somewhere.
- This move from order to disorder
- Without additional energy. This go from complex to simple. Breakdown. Lose energy.
- As the temperature approaches absolute zero, a system approaches stasis
- At zero energy, things die a cold death
Tenants of Chemistry
- Everything either dissolves in water or in fat, like dissolves like.
- Energy is stored in bonds and can be released by hitting certain energy thresholds
Tenants of Biology
- Proton gradients power everything
- All life is cell-based
- Life evolves through natural selection (randomness)
- Genetic information is encoded in DNA
Tenants of Neurology
- We visually process things in gaussian layers
- We only have so much bandwidth in our brain, just like a computer wire
Tenants of Social Sciences
- These systems are too complex and unpredictable for forecasts
