Ken B (haephestus@hyperborea.systems)
@telepathic.bsky.social
Aspiring cyberneticist and trauma facilitator. Quantum X where X is {consciousness, biology, thermodynamics, information, computing}.
We are not alone.
I live to love and serve.
I didn't do the math; I'll show my work to you anyway.
Vancouver, BC.
We are not alone.
I live to love and serve.
I didn't do the math; I'll show my work to you anyway.
Vancouver, BC.
The killer app in this space is federated login from day one. If the GNOME Circle ecosystem had federated login for instance. The second thing is digital civics. Ensuring every computer gives back like SETI@home.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The killer app in this space is federated login from day one. If the GNOME Circle ecosystem had federated login for instance. The second thing is digital civics. Ensuring every computer gives back like SETI@home.
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If anyone wants to learn more about the Kochen-Specker theorem, Conway did a lecture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa4...
Contextuality is a topic that bridges physics, mathematics, epistemology, and ontology, and to me, it makes sense of Vedic spiritualities in a rigorous, satisfying way. True Woo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa4...
Contextuality is a topic that bridges physics, mathematics, epistemology, and ontology, and to me, it makes sense of Vedic spiritualities in a rigorous, satisfying way. True Woo.
John Conway 2/6 [The Free Will Lectures] - The Paradox of Kochen and Specker
YouTube video by Graduate Mathematics
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December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If anyone wants to learn more about the Kochen-Specker theorem, Conway did a lecture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa4...
Contextuality is a topic that bridges physics, mathematics, epistemology, and ontology, and to me, it makes sense of Vedic spiritualities in a rigorous, satisfying way. True Woo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa4...
Contextuality is a topic that bridges physics, mathematics, epistemology, and ontology, and to me, it makes sense of Vedic spiritualities in a rigorous, satisfying way. True Woo.
How pleasant that quantum mechanics shows that choice is our birthright, baked into the physics.
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How pleasant that quantum mechanics shows that choice is our birthright, baked into the physics.
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I'll conclude with what I said at the beginning. We know the K-S theorem intimately: it comes up in any choice that turns an ambiguous situation into a defined one. We choose to be present realities which are self-consistent away from others.
I'll conclude with what I said at the beginning. We know the K-S theorem intimately: it comes up in any choice that turns an ambiguous situation into a defined one. We choose to be present realities which are self-consistent away from others.
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
12/12
I'll conclude with what I said at the beginning. We know the K-S theorem intimately: it comes up in any choice that turns an ambiguous situation into a defined one. We choose to be present realities which are self-consistent away from others.
I'll conclude with what I said at the beginning. We know the K-S theorem intimately: it comes up in any choice that turns an ambiguous situation into a defined one. We choose to be present realities which are self-consistent away from others.
11/?
What do we have left? To understand how it is we can have a shared reality in the first place, with shared laws of physics and overlapping experiences in time: puzzles I will bring up another day.
What do we have left? To understand how it is we can have a shared reality in the first place, with shared laws of physics and overlapping experiences in time: puzzles I will bring up another day.
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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What do we have left? To understand how it is we can have a shared reality in the first place, with shared laws of physics and overlapping experiences in time: puzzles I will bring up another day.
What do we have left? To understand how it is we can have a shared reality in the first place, with shared laws of physics and overlapping experiences in time: puzzles I will bring up another day.
10/?
In the end, because we can only pick two of three conditions—VR, VD, and NC—we have three worlds to pick from. But two of these worlds defeat QM. We accept that the physical world is, relational, participatory, and perspectival, with no "view from nowhere" that encapsulates everything at once.
In the end, because we can only pick two of three conditions—VR, VD, and NC—we have three worlds to pick from. But two of these worlds defeat QM. We accept that the physical world is, relational, participatory, and perspectival, with no "view from nowhere" that encapsulates everything at once.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In the end, because we can only pick two of three conditions—VR, VD, and NC—we have three worlds to pick from. But two of these worlds defeat QM. We accept that the physical world is, relational, participatory, and perspectival, with no "view from nowhere" that encapsulates everything at once.
In the end, because we can only pick two of three conditions—VR, VD, and NC—we have three worlds to pick from. But two of these worlds defeat QM. We accept that the physical world is, relational, participatory, and perspectival, with no "view from nowhere" that encapsulates everything at once.
9/?
Quantum mechanics forces an impossible choice. Bell's theorem shows we can't have VR + VD + locality. Kochen-Specker goes further: we can't even have VR + VD + NC. Even without spatial separation, even for a single particle, we must give something up.
Quantum mechanics forces an impossible choice. Bell's theorem shows we can't have VR + VD + locality. Kochen-Specker goes further: we can't even have VR + VD + NC. Even without spatial separation, even for a single particle, we must give something up.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Quantum mechanics forces an impossible choice. Bell's theorem shows we can't have VR + VD + locality. Kochen-Specker goes further: we can't even have VR + VD + NC. Even without spatial separation, even for a single particle, we must give something up.
Quantum mechanics forces an impossible choice. Bell's theorem shows we can't have VR + VD + locality. Kochen-Specker goes further: we can't even have VR + VD + NC. Even without spatial separation, even for a single particle, we must give something up.
Here's the crux: we want three things. (VR) Value Realism: measurement outcomes reveal pre-existing properties. (VD) Value Determinism: identical preparations give identical hidden variable states. (NC) Non-Contextuality: the value shown doesn't depend on what else you could have measured together.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Here's the crux: we want three things. (VR) Value Realism: measurement outcomes reveal pre-existing properties. (VD) Value Determinism: identical preparations give identical hidden variable states. (NC) Non-Contextuality: the value shown doesn't depend on what else you could have measured together.
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But with quantum mechanics, K-S shows that this can't hold for our random measurements. There is no pre-existing assignment of values—no hidden spreadsheet of "what each observable would be if measured"—that could reproduce quantum predictions. The measurement context itself matters irreducibly.
But with quantum mechanics, K-S shows that this can't hold for our random measurements. There is no pre-existing assignment of values—no hidden spreadsheet of "what each observable would be if measured"—that could reproduce quantum predictions. The measurement context itself matters irreducibly.
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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But with quantum mechanics, K-S shows that this can't hold for our random measurements. There is no pre-existing assignment of values—no hidden spreadsheet of "what each observable would be if measured"—that could reproduce quantum predictions. The measurement context itself matters irreducibly.
But with quantum mechanics, K-S shows that this can't hold for our random measurements. There is no pre-existing assignment of values—no hidden spreadsheet of "what each observable would be if measured"—that could reproduce quantum predictions. The measurement context itself matters irreducibly.
This makes the data predictable, if not "deterministic" in that the generating process can be calculated apart from the distribution itself.
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This makes the data predictable, if not "deterministic" in that the generating process can be calculated apart from the distribution itself.
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For anyone with a statistician in them, there should be nausea. Given a random distribution of data, methods such as PCAs or HMMs unpack variance into factors that could, in principle, replicate the dataset in some limit.
For anyone with a statistician in them, there should be nausea. Given a random distribution of data, methods such as PCAs or HMMs unpack variance into factors that could, in principle, replicate the dataset in some limit.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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For anyone with a statistician in them, there should be nausea. Given a random distribution of data, methods such as PCAs or HMMs unpack variance into factors that could, in principle, replicate the dataset in some limit.
For anyone with a statistician in them, there should be nausea. Given a random distribution of data, methods such as PCAs or HMMs unpack variance into factors that could, in principle, replicate the dataset in some limit.
It's non-locality's more fundamental sibling: contextuality proves hidden variables fail even for a single system.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It's non-locality's more fundamental sibling: contextuality proves hidden variables fail even for a single system.
6/?
So much the better. Kochen-Specker does something even
stronger. It rules out the idea that variability and randomness implied by the Born Rule can be explained by unknown variables whose values we haven't observed—even without invoking spatial separation.
So much the better. Kochen-Specker does something even
stronger. It rules out the idea that variability and randomness implied by the Born Rule can be explained by unknown variables whose values we haven't observed—even without invoking spatial separation.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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So much the better. Kochen-Specker does something even
stronger. It rules out the idea that variability and randomness implied by the Born Rule can be explained by unknown variables whose values we haven't observed—even without invoking spatial separation.
So much the better. Kochen-Specker does something even
stronger. It rules out the idea that variability and randomness implied by the Born Rule can be explained by unknown variables whose values we haven't observed—even without invoking spatial separation.
Either our measurements help determine what state the particle is in – Statistical Dependence. We can keep local realism here, a well-behaved world, at the expense of our own measurements being as part of predetermined system since the beginning of time.
Or we accept spooky action at a distance.
Or we accept spooky action at a distance.
December 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Either our measurements help determine what state the particle is in – Statistical Dependence. We can keep local realism here, a well-behaved world, at the expense of our own measurements being as part of predetermined system since the beginning of time.
Or we accept spooky action at a distance.
Or we accept spooky action at a distance.
In other words, particles can't be carrying instruction sets that predetermine all possible measurement outcomes. In practice, this gives us two alternatives.
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In other words, particles can't be carrying instruction sets that predetermine all possible measurement outcomes. In practice, this gives us two alternatives.
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Let's talk about Bell Inequalities first. Bell Inequalities tell us what it means for a quantum system to exhibit non-locality. They show that quantum correlations between spatially separated measurements can't be explained by local hidden variables.
Let's talk about Bell Inequalities first. Bell Inequalities tell us what it means for a quantum system to exhibit non-locality. They show that quantum correlations between spatially separated measurements can't be explained by local hidden variables.
December 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Let's talk about Bell Inequalities first. Bell Inequalities tell us what it means for a quantum system to exhibit non-locality. They show that quantum correlations between spatially separated measurements can't be explained by local hidden variables.
Let's talk about Bell Inequalities first. Bell Inequalities tell us what it means for a quantum system to exhibit non-locality. They show that quantum correlations between spatially separated measurements can't be explained by local hidden variables.
Maybe you aren't into quantum computers, so you have no reason to care about Kochen-Specker. That's fair! Let me change your mind. There are other reasons to like it.
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Maybe you aren't into quantum computers, so you have no reason to care about Kochen-Specker. That's fair! Let me change your mind. There are other reasons to like it.
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There are good reasons to care about this if you are into making quantum computers fast. It turns out that exhibiting contextuality is something that many quantum algorithms have in common.
There are good reasons to care about this if you are into making quantum computers fast. It turns out that exhibiting contextuality is something that many quantum algorithms have in common.
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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There are good reasons to care about this if you are into making quantum computers fast. It turns out that exhibiting contextuality is something that many quantum algorithms have in common.
There are good reasons to care about this if you are into making quantum computers fast. It turns out that exhibiting contextuality is something that many quantum algorithms have in common.
3/? Conversely, what measurement basis is chosen determines the set of commutative observables one obtains under experiment. And there is nothing that explains the difference between our results that isn't simply present in that measurement choice.
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
3/? Conversely, what measurement basis is chosen determines the set of commutative observables one obtains under experiment. And there is nothing that explains the difference between our results that isn't simply present in that measurement choice.
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What is this key element? "Contextuality". In jargon: you cannot presume a global set of value assignments exist to variables with quantum measurements.
What is this key element? "Contextuality". In jargon: you cannot presume a global set of value assignments exist to variables with quantum measurements.
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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What is this key element? "Contextuality". In jargon: you cannot presume a global set of value assignments exist to variables with quantum measurements.
What is this key element? "Contextuality". In jargon: you cannot presume a global set of value assignments exist to variables with quantum measurements.
@wesleyfinck.org this puts sensemaking in an interesting position as an antifragility and hospicing device
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December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
@wesleyfinck.org this puts sensemaking in an interesting position as an antifragility and hospicing device
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The difference is "saturation". Marx spoke of true communism only emerging after capitalism becoming global. Saturated in noise, waste, ambiguity, and priced out of private property.
Not streamlining metabolism: VUCA should be catabolized into signal. This moves resilience to antifragility.
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Not streamlining metabolism: VUCA should be catabolized into signal. This moves resilience to antifragility.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The difference is "saturation". Marx spoke of true communism only emerging after capitalism becoming global. Saturated in noise, waste, ambiguity, and priced out of private property.
Not streamlining metabolism: VUCA should be catabolized into signal. This moves resilience to antifragility.
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Not streamlining metabolism: VUCA should be catabolized into signal. This moves resilience to antifragility.
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