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computational theology

17 Nov 2022 - 24 Jun 2026
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    • I made up this field as a joke sometime in the 80s, but since then it has become real. As usual, being early to sense a hyperstition coming into being buys me nothing.
    • Where matter and pattern meet // The Topos Lab
      • At a Computational Theology workshop, held a few months ago in Austin TX, a number of us—Scott Garrabrant, Sophie Libkind (who also helped me refine the ideas for this post), Eliana Lorch, Anna Salamon, and I—spent several hours trying to work out how math and matter relate. How does the math fact that 4+3=7 relate to the paper-and-ink display “4+3=7”, or to some person’s vocal chords vibrating to create the sound “four plus three equals seven”? The math is pure pattern, and the sound, as vibrating air, is pure matter. What’s going on with the link between them?