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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">One of the (trivial, granted) ways the universe amuses me is that there are two Sean Carrols, one of whom authored ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’. I first heard of that book on a Friday morning at St. John’s. The are both prominent in their fields (physics and biology) and are very good popularizers.</p>
<p dir="auto">At times, when my critical faculties are sleeping, I can imagine that at some point the universe split and re-merged with itself and that the Sean Carrols represent a glitch in the merging process. That would explain that there are two of them, very similar in many ways and yet distinct.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 19 Jul 2021, at 21:42, David Eric Smith wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Anyway, what came up today was a Sean Carroll interview with Wolfram, which fronts hypergraphs as Wolfram’s base-level abstraction. It is a couple </p>
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