What Pythagorean Illuminism (PI) Means to Me So far in this blog series I've never really talked about the why of PI -- why I find it such a rich catalyst for new ideas, why I find it so mind expanding, why it's so entertaining to read. Instead, I've mostly talked about the how and the what -- how it's like a Linux distribution , what was my path to discovering it etc. Recently, I was reviewing one of my old ideas notebook, in particular the one I was writing at the time when I was finishing up the God Series and experiencing a mini-enlightenment on PI: a period of about two weeks where I was writing down thoughts and insights at a rate of about 10x my usual rate. In there I found a section I titled "What PI means to me", where I listed all the things I felt I had learned from reading the God Series. After you learn something, you have a tendency to "normalize" on it, and take it for granted: you forget how t...
Practical, Engineering perspectives on Ontological Mathematics as provided by the Pythagorean Illuminati.