Re:Happiness is more like poetry than algorithms
by joe_the_user on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:06PM
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Well, I think the big question is "why can't it be both?"
It seems like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has done a lot of research on happiness and related qualities as a kind of "flow" [1]. And this entire, overall process seems reasonably close to the qualities of fractals, which are highly mathematical objects that also have a multitude of rich qualities similar to complex systems in the world[2].
I wouldn't assert that there's a full characterization of happiness as fractals or other math object available now. But it seems like something worth of research, "taking the question seriously" rather than dismissal. It seems like such dismissals often given stunted characterizations of what either happiness or math involves.
It seems like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has done a lot of research on happiness and related qualities as a kind of "flow" [1]. And this entire, overall process seems reasonably close to the qualities of fractals, which are highly mathematical objects that also have a multitude of rich qualities similar to complex systems in the world[2].
I wouldn't assert that there's a full characterization of happiness as fractals or other math object available now. But it seems like something worth of research, "taking the question seriously" rather than dismissal. It seems like such dismissals often given stunted characterizations of what either happiness or math involves.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal