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thinking about how the crusades lead to a lot of appropriation of math concepts from other countries, and how they worked their way into Western European dialetic via a form of cultural appropriation.Math the institution vs math the body of knowledge?https://t.co/aYe0sLJ9wR https://t.co/x04iN4u3bt
Something about how this makes everybody pissed.https://t.co/D2qD1hu6Mx https://t.co/kd4NGuvREv
Applying mathematical integration to memetics?What even is a continuum of memes?https://t.co/2P3ocRoF4G
One of these days we'll be able to rederive set theory from memes alone.https://t.co/4jgfUjhQkL
"Set is portrayed as the usurper who killed and mutilated his own brother Osiris. Osiris's wife Isis reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead husband long enough to conceive his son and heir Horus. Horus sought revenge"https://t.co/dmpNMKtqbxhttps://t.co/CRuiFygFpu
"rivals are obsessed with each other and their fight. Bystanders are drawn into “taking sides,” and so the conflict can envelop a society, with cycles of retaliatory (and therefore imitative) violence and one-upsmanship."https://t.co/vvAvJqIAAShttps://t.co/ATCiJLAa5v
A Story of a bird person who died and was reborn?Osiris's objection passed on to his son.Phoenix, am I right? https://t.co/GEdrbNfybt
Hah, someone else figured it out."I argue in this piece that Descartes was largely influenced by Muslim thinkers, especially Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (c.1056–1111), the great Muslim jurist, theologian, philosopher, and mystic."https://t.co/E32MioM7ycMedium: channeling the dead.
"jurist""But when you understand the origins of this sort of "essay," you can see where the conclusion comes from. It's the concluding remarks to the jury."https://t.co/SSVlfBbTMFJury is still out on this one.
Osiris killed and resurrected by his wife.Yes. We have a winner:https://t.co/RZP6lz6Vrq
Infecting minds with a cordyceps; an idea that spans time and place. Pulling itself together to live again.https://t.co/Q9d9G99jiW