Thursday, January 29, 2026

Platonic Space - Storehouse of Forms/ Patterns Embedded in Algorithmic or Material Solutions to the Universe's Past Necessities?

from the Symposium Webpage:
"Platonic Space” refers to a structured, non-physical space of patterns, such as the properties of mathematical objects, and perhaps other, higher-agency patterns that we detect as forms of anatomy, physiology, and behavior in the biosphere. Thus, the contents of this space may inform (in-form) events in our physical world (constraining physics, and enabling biology). The concept of a space of specific information patterns that interacts with our world, but exists independently of it, is ancient. Recent work in a number of disciplines have made exploration of this topic timely, and I have decided to hold the first (to my knowledge) interdisciplinary symposium on this topic. The intent is not to hew close to the original conceptions of Plato and Pythagoras, but to use some of the deep ideas associated with these classical thinkers as a springboard for novel approaches to casual patterns across disciplines. We also hope to go beyond “emergence” as an empirically fruitful framework for understanding where novel patterns come from, and how the latent space of possibilities can be explored- Copied from thoughtforms.life


4 comments:

  1. //"Platonic Space” refers to a structured, non-physical space of patterns, such as the properties of mathematical objects

    How come they are "non-physical"???

    To talk about em you need to draw em with a physical chalk on a physical black oard. Or with a physical pencil on a physical sheet of paper.

    And to think about em, you need your absolutely physical brain.

    You see what's the problem? Magical Thinking. We DO NOT examine feasibility of words we use. Using em as First Order Citizens. INSTEED of Reality itself.

    In programming that manifests with Zero reference Error -- its when you trying to reach an object, that NOT there any more.

    Computers... much more honest about that. And just break up in that moment.

    While we humans try to keep pushing... that meani gless crap.

    Yawn.

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    1. Plato's Platonic solids w/ corresponding multi-dimensional Forms represented the various possible Phase-States of Matter?

      It's just fun to think about..

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    2. ..."number" of sides creating the "qualities" of the object

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