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Eugene Wigner's The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960) Applied to Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

In 1960, Eugene Wigner wrote a very influential paper in mathematics, which observed the effectiveness of math in other fields.

Having known about this paper for many years, I have often wondered its implications to neuroscience, and how the mind works. In AI research, thermodynamic compute is considered to be theoretically similar to neural computation.

I wrote on my thoughts on how Mathematics influences philosophy ideas, such as Sartre's concept of bad faith, and being, here.

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Wow. Mind blowing đŸ¤¯