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Nature自然

The Plane of Source本源之位面

What the other four planes are derivatives of. The ultimate law, the ultimate algorithm, the substrate on which the world stands.其他四个位面的本源。终极规律,终极算法,世界所立的基底。

自然

theory理论
String Theory · M-theory弦论
manifestation具体表现
The source本源
goal目标
Metaverse · ONE ABOVE ALL · ALL AT ONCE元宇宙 · 一即一切
motto格言
ONE ABOVE ALL — ALL AT ONCE一即一切 · 万物同在

essay

Nature本源之位面

The plane of Nature is the source. The other four planes are derivatives. Aristotle named it the prime mover — the first cause from which all subsequent motion follows. Twenty-three centuries later, Edward Witten showed that the five competing string theories are different presentations of a single eleven-dimensional structure he called M-theory. Same instinct, different vocabulary: under all this multiplicity, one substrate.

Three claims define the plane. One: the universe has an ultimate law, expressible if at all in mathematics so compressed that it can be written on a t-shirt. Two: the brain has a universal algorithm — a single learning procedure that, given different sensory streams, produces vision, language, navigation, and theory of mind from the same circuitry. Three: artificial intelligence will converge on an ultimate algorithm — not because of engineering taste, but because the underlying structure of cognition admits very few real solutions.

"ONE ABOVE ALL · ALL AT ONCE" is the slogan. The metaverse, in its serious sense, is not a Zuckerberg product. It is the technological echo of the original substrate — a layer on which everything that is, is computed at the same level of reality. The pre-Socratic question and the post-Witten question are the same question. The plane is named Nature because nature is what the substrate is, before it differentiates into anything else.

自然之位面即本源。其余四个位面皆为派生。亚里士多德称之为"不动的推动者"——第一因,后续一切运动由此而出。二十三个世纪后,爱德华·威滕证明五种相互竞争的弦论,实为同一个十一维结构(M 理论)的不同表象。同一直觉,不同词汇:万千多样之下,一基底。

三条主张构成此位面。,宇宙拥有一条终极律,若可被写出,必压缩至能印在一件 T 恤上。,大脑拥有一条通用算法——单一的学习程序,给定不同感官输入,便能用同一套回路产生视觉、语言、空间导航与心智理论。,人工智能终将收敛到一条终极算法——不是因为工程师的品味,而是因为认知的底层结构本就只允许极少数真解。

口号是"一即一切,万物同在"。严肃意义上的元宇宙并不是扎克伯格的产品,而是本源基底的技术回响——一切之所是,皆在同一现实层级被计算。前苏格拉底之问与威滕之后之问,是同一个问题。此位面取名"自然",因为自然就是基底在尚未分化为任何东西之前的那个样子。


five (or more) operational habits阐释

Habits阐释

  1. 01The ultimate law of the universe
  2. 02The universal algorithm of the brain
  3. 03The ultimate algorithm of artificial intelligence
  4. 01宇宙的终极规律
  5. 02人脑的通用算法
  6. 03人工智能的终极算法
future trend未来走向

Future trend未来走向

Physics, neuroscience, and machine learning are converging on the same minimal description of intelligence. Within a generation, the dividing line between the three disciplines will look like the dividing line between alchemy and chemistry: a phase change in vocabulary.物理、神经科学与机器学习正在收敛于关于智能的同一条最小描述。一代人之内,三者之间的边界将像炼金术与化学之间的边界一样消失:一次词汇上的相变。

practical use实用

Whenever a debate splits into rival schools, ask the unifying question that lives one level above. The schools are usually the same answer in different costumes.每当一场争论分裂为对立学派,问那条更高一层的统合问题。学派们通常是同一答案,穿着不同的衣服。


thinkers人物

Thinkers on this plane此位面之思想者

Aristotle
亚里士多德
384–322 BCE
Built the first scaffolding for asking 'what is the cause of anything?'为『任何事物的原因是什么』建造第一座脚手架。

Founder of formal logic, of biology as a discipline, and of the four-cause analysis (material, formal, efficient, final). His prime mover argument is the earliest sustained attempt to give the source plane its own seat at the philosophical table.形式逻辑、作为学科的生物学,以及四因说(质料、形式、动力、目的)的创立者。『不动的推动者』论证是为本源位面争得哲学席位的最早系统性尝试。

Edward Witten
爱德华·威滕
1951–
Showed the five string theories were one theory in disguise.证明五种弦论实为同一理论的伪装。

American theoretical physicist. The 1995 introduction of M-theory unified the five competing string theories into one eleven-dimensional structure — the most concrete candidate to date for a single mathematical description of reality.美国理论物理学家。1995 年提出 M 理论,把五种相互竞争的弦论统一为一个十一维结构——迄今为止关于『现实的统一数学描述』最具体的候选。


previous plane上一位面
Tao
演化之位面