Talks with Brian Troutwine about His Code Mesh Talk
summary
Argues that much of mathematics depends on embodied cognition—counting as collections, set‑like “container” schemas and a directionality needed for reduction—so some alien environments could lack calculus as humans know it; describes thought experiments about boundaryless or non‑temporal alien minds. Describes a practical tool, the gamma JavaScript package, that pulls World Bank–style data, runs small reproducible transformation scripts in the browser and embeds editable visualizations that actually render and can be re‑run by readers.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Would Aliens Understand the Calculus
- 2:00What is embodied cognition
- 3:00Boundaries
- 4:00Data Science
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