I do indeed make myself laugh at times. I think it has something to do with depth. The consequence of a line of thinking can be surprising, and that’s probably relevant.
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. Feynman had a hunch on the topic, which he shared in his Nobel Prize speech: nature is simple in some sense. We can describe things in many different ways without knowing that we’re describing the same thing. Which, he said, is a sort of simplicity.
I do indeed make myself laugh at times. I think it has something to do with depth. The consequence of a line of thinking can be surprising, and that’s probably relevant.
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. Feynman had a hunch on the topic, which he shared in his Nobel Prize speech: nature is simple in some sense. We can describe things in many different ways without knowing that we’re describing the same thing. Which, he said, is a sort of simplicity.