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THE NORMAL VILLAGE. During our lives, most of us mortals are rarely personally exposed to these extraordinary thinkers. Even those who display unusual curiosity, moments of great insight, or who march to a different drum are rare. Our narrow circles are predominantly filled with perfectly nice ordinary people with compliant normal thinking. We effectively live in parochial villages. View in LinkedIn

GESTALT TRICK. A trick I learned in learning Spanish at an older age is to let go the editorial pen and go with the flow of a sentence. It does not matter if you miss some of the words, go for the gist. Until this happened, my learning was constantly hijacked by my ignorance. The gestalt is the key. The same applies to glimpsing another way of thinking. View in LinkedIn

UNTOLD RICHES. For the last 2,000 years there has been an abundance of extraordinary thinkers who have committed their curiosity to lasting paper records for future generations to enjoy. During this time there has accumulated a greater bounty of riches than a person can expect to read in a single lifetime. This is a gold mine, just a click away. View in LinkedIn

CURATION. A curated journal club is an entity from my past experience. The method of curation is to carefully isolate key and provocative original thoughts and try and draw the dots between them. And, like the best of Chinese cooking recipes, in bitesized pieces that can serve as nodules of meditation about that world view. View in LinkedIn

NEW IDEAS. To walk in the shoes of another is to see the world from another perspective. To glimpse, even for a minute, however superficially, the mind of a mathematician, a quantum physicist, an astrophysicist, a botanist, a geologist, or a paleontologist, is to enrich our experience in ways that cannot be counted. View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT PATH. “In these examples, emergence refers to how the continuum arises from a discrete theory. The present analysis is not of either kind.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

IDEA MENAGERIE. “Another type of approach includes direct discretization of space and time, as in causal set theory, dynamical causal triangulation and loop quantum gravity.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

CONJECTURES. “In connection to information theory there are models using the gauge/gravity duality by entanglement entropy such as tensor networks, where emergence occurs in the sense of said duality, and the building block is entanglement between particles.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

ORIGINS. “Comparison with different versions of ‘emergence’ of space-time. There exist many approaches to emergence of space-time from different ‘fundamental entities’.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

A GREAT START. “In all, this initial analysis is limited by being qualitative and without consideration of curvature, but it reveals enough internal consistency for further analysis to be of interest.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn