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Imagine you're a character in a Lord of the Rings novel. And math is the imaginary landscape that you are going on an adventure through. When a number is irrational, it is not easy to work with compared to natural numbers. So they're marking the map as a hard pass in the mountain ridge that is on your journey, assuming you want to explore that world.

If a spectrum is just a range of numbers, then the idea of spectrum should apply to many phenomenon. Many things can be described by a number. So, when matrix spectrum and atomic spectrum were formulated, perhaps spectrum was a word that was in vogue to describe a quantity. I think this is the explanation of the reason the same term is used for both. Because many connected phenomenon can be quantified. I know only a little about matrix spectrum and atomic spectrum, so take my thought with a grain of salt.

I do agree that just because people describe their experience as different, that is not a convincing argument that it is very different. Sometimes people don't understand what other people are describing or assume too much. In my opinion, I think if we were to live inside someone else's mind for a day, depending on who that other person is, we may not recognize the world as the same world. I believe people are more different than many people know. Some people may be similar inside, but some people may be extremely different inside. Like you, I would also like to know more about this.

Anyone who knows, how will censorship play out in the future? Even censorship by private companies, I don't care how people are silenced, I'm still curious about the effects. Edit: can someone explain the effects of this kind of event that the thread is discussing? whatever you want to call it

I think the optimal or universal language is more difficult in practice than in idealism. Reading is the art of sorting through the mess in any field, and acquiring context. I think a lot of this underestimates the complexity and nuance of language for any field.

Can you tell me what you have in mind about where others left off, because I'd be interested in reading about freedom.

0.999...= 1 6 years ago

Why do we accept .999... as a valid notation. Why not only allow 1 to denote this concept?