Re: On The Origin Of Time

2024-02-05 Thread Russell Standish
I'd never heard of that called the Poincare effect either. Nor it seems does Wikipedia nor Google. IIUC, it is the phenomenon that after working fruitless on some problem for a while, taking a break, sleeping on it, etc might suddenly produce the solution. As I've often said - the 10 minutes

Re: On The Origin Of Time

2024-02-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 6:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * >I'm surprised. * > Why? Neither google nor GPT knows what the "Poincaire' effect" is in I don't either. > > All mathematicians have experienced it, > That depends on what "it" is. Just tell me what you're talking about and why it

Re: On The Origin Of Time

2024-02-02 Thread Brent Meeker
I'm surprised.  All mathematicians have experienced it, but it's named after Poincare' because of this essay.  It's well worth reading all of it, but the relevant part is pp 326-329. https://archive.org/details/jstor-27900262/page/n9/mode/2up Brent On 2/2/2024 11:47 AM, John Clark wrote: On

Re: On The Origin Of Time

2024-02-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > You must know about the Poincaire' effect* Nope, never heard of it. Do you mean the Poincaré conjecture? Or the Poincaré recurrence? Or do you mean something else entirely, the man did a lot of stuff. John K ClarkSee what's on my new

Re: On The Origin Of Time

2024-02-02 Thread Brent Meeker
You write that a lot, John.  But I don't think it's true.  You must know about the Poincaire' effect, which is actually common and is a direct contradiction of your theory. Brent On 2/2/2024 3:52 AM, John Clark wrote: I believe data processing is important because I think consciousness is