Computers Are Too Ephemeral To Have Poetry Written About Them

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It's evening number two of both my new room and a Petra-free house. My brain is filled with math right now. I want to program numbers flying through digital space, jumping and leaping through rings and falling into bounds and finding orderings. It's times like this that I wish I had a nearby geek friend, where I could talk about manifolds and he or she would describe series for hours. I want to dip my hands in numbers and silicon and pull out new neurons. All four computers are running through numberspace right now, looking for primes, undulators, and monkeys. Even though I don't see anything happening, I feel it. It's like flying, to see all the numbers go past, discarded by an algorithmic eye. It's math.

When I describe math or computers, I feel like CooperJohn, talking about religion. He calls himself an apatheist, but his description of "I climb trees" is so much better. That is his religion. Is mine math? In a way. I believe that meaning is found deep in theorems. I believe that I can use math to explain the Universe. Better yet, thinking about math is my qualification for sentience. We, as humans, can think about huge numbers, numbers larger than the number of quarks in the universe. Computers today can't "think" that high. I know that when our species encounters any other comparably sentient species, our communication will start with math. Do I worship math? No more than other people worship atoms. Math is my...

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if it could be true

[purly.livejournal.com]

0/0 = infinity? zero? or one?

if all are true, then infinity == 1 == 0. if such were true, the 1-verse(universe) could be viewed as not existing(0) and being infinite, while infinity could be viewed as not existing(0) and being singular(1), and nothingness could be viewed as something(1) and everything(infinite) all at once.

that's my proof that i exist. it makes no sense... it's impossible, but yeah... i understand what ya mean about religion in this case.

Re: if it could be true

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

On the first day of class, is your grade an A+ or an F?

Re: if it could be true

[purly.livejournal.com]

Who are you? This comment is ancient... I'm surprised to get a responce to a comment I made in someone else's journal over a year ago.

Re: if it could be true

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Woah... That was a year ago... How did I not notice that?
Anyways, I came to this post from a link here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/mathsex/21562.html).

[axelwolfin.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful. I never really saw math in the light some people do, but I am envious of you for being able to see it that way.

[dukelion.livejournal.com]

X equals negative b plus or minus the square root b squared minus 4 a c all over 2 a. hey it's the best I know.