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"A different kind of knowing": speculations on understanding in light of the Philosophy of Information
This short and speculative paper considers some philosophical approaches to understanding, particularly those related to Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Information, and based on the general idea that understanding is a special kind of knowledge. It is a slightly extended and updated version of the paper presented at CoLIS9
âA new kind of conversationâ: Michael Chekhov's âturn to the craftsâ
Dartington Hall, which was the home of the Chekhov Theatre Studio between 1936 and 1938, also accommodated other performing artists including the Ballets Jooss and Hans Oppenheim's music school as well as artist-craftsmen such as the painter Mark Tobey, the potter Bernard Leach and the sculptor Willi Soukop. This essay examines the training undertaken in Chekhov's studio in dialogue with the practice of these artists (who also worked with his students) and theories of practice articulated by the wider constructive movement in the arts in the 1930s. It goes on to propose that Chekhov's technique be considered as a means of achieving theatre-artistry through craftsmanship, and as an artistic technique whose reach extends far beyond the confines of actor training
A different kind of urban
Like many, I had certain pre-conceptions about Milton Keynes when I first approached writing A different kind of urban; however, I have since had the good fortune to be guided into a deeper understanding of the many strands that make up this remarkable town. A recce visit with The Open University Choir conductor Bill Strang and lyricist Judi Moore in February 2017, both long-time residents, opened my eyes to a rich wealth of history when we visited key artefacts of the town (none of which I will divulge here, as it would take away from the excellent narrative of Judiâs lyrics!).A different kind of urban is in five movements. The first, â1: what do we celebrate?â, outlines an introductory scene, whilst â2: Up in the airâ and â3: Down on the groundâ respectively showcase the work's main themes, inspired by the town's juxtaposition of old and new. The material within these two movements sets the tone for â4: In the heartâ and â5: An ending, but not the endâ, where the themes are revisited, becoming more interlinked until they are at least in part merged at the musicâs culmination. The lyrics of â4: In the heartâ are interpreted to give a sense of drawing things together, representing a more intimate and proud knowledge of the town.The use of brass, too, plays a part in a representation of the complex and underlying layers of the town; becoming more substantial as the music progresses, evolving a relationship between choir and brass which in itself changes, just as the town has these past 50 years
A Kind of Magic
We introduce the extended Freudenthal-Rosenfeld-Tits magic square based on
six algebras: the reals , complexes , ternions
, quaternions , sextonions and octonions
. The ternionic and sextonionic rows/columns of the magic square
yield non-reductive Lie algebras, including
. It is demonstrated that the
algebras of the extended magic square appear quite naturally as the symmetries
of supergravity Lagrangians. The sextonionic row (for appropriate choices of
real forms) gives the non-compact global symmetries of the Lagrangian for the
maximal , magic and magic
non-supersymmetric theories, obtained by dimensionally reducing the
parent theories on a circle, with the graviphoton left undualised. In
particular, the extremal intermediate non-reductive Lie algebra
(which is not a
subalgebra of ) is the non-compact global symmetry algebra
of , supergravity as obtained by dimensionally reducing
, supergravity with symmetry on a
circle. The ternionic row (for appropriate choices of real forms) gives the
non-compact global symmetries of the Lagrangian for the maximal
, magic and magic non-supersymmetric theories
obtained by dimensionally reducing the parent theories on a circle. In
particular, the Kantor-Koecher-Tits intermediate non-reductive Lie algebra
is the non-compact global
symmetry algebra of , supergravity as obtained by
dimensionally reducing , supergravity with
symmetry on a circle.Comment: 38 pages. Reference added and minor corrections mad
A New Kind of Finance
Finance has benefited from the Wolfram's NKS approach but it can and will
benefit even more in the future, and the gains from the influence may actually
be concentrated among practitioners who unintentionally employ those principles
as a group.Comment: 13 pages; Forthcoming in "Irreducibility and Computational
Equivalence: 10 Years After Wolfram's A New Kind of Science," Hector Zenil,
ed., Springer Verlag, 201
A different kind of string
In U(1) lattice gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions, the problem of
confinement can be studied analytically in a semi-classical approach, in terms
of a gas of monopoles with Coulomb-like interactions. In addition, this theory
can be mapped to a spin model via an exact duality transformation, which allows
one to perform high-precision numerical studies of the confining potential.
Taking advantage of these properties, we carried out an accurate investigation
of the effective string describing the low-energy properties of flux tubes in
this confining gauge theory. We found striking deviations from the expected
Nambu-Goto-like behavior, and, for the first time, evidence for contributions
that can be described by a term proportional to the extrinsic curvature of the
effective string worldsheet. Such term is allowed by Lorentz invariance, and
its presence in the infrared regime of the U(1) model was indeed predicted by
Polyakov several years ago. Our results show that this term scales as expected
according to Polyakov's solution, and becomes the dominant contribution to the
effective string action in the continuum limit. We also demonstrate
analytically that the corrections to the confining potential induced by the
extrinsic curvature term can be related to the partition function of the
massive perturbation of a c=1 bosonic conformal field theory. The implications
of our results for SU(N) Yang-Mills theories in three and in four spacetime
dimensions are discussed.Comment: 1+21 pages, 2 figures; v2 (1+24 pages, 2 figures): improved the
discussion in the conclusions' section, added an appendix, included new
references, updated the affiliation details for one of the authors, corrected
typos: version published in the journa
A Kind of Compact Quantum Semigroups
We show that the quantum family of all maps from a finite space to a finite
dimensional compact quantum semigroup has a canonical quantum semigroup
structure.Comment: 9 page
A different kind of quantum search
The quantum search algorithm consists of an alternating sequence of selective
inversions and diffusion type operations, as a result of which it can find a
target state in an unsorted database of size N in only sqrt(N) queries. This
paper shows that by replacing the selective inversions by selective phase
shifts of Pi/3, the algorithm gets transformed into something similar to a
classical search algorithm. Just like classical search algorithms this
algorithm has a fixed point in state-space toward which it preferentially
converges. In contrast, the original quantum search algorithm moves uniformly
in a two-dimensional state space. This feature leads to robust search
algorithms and also to conceptually new schemes for error correction.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
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