A well-known mathematician said once that it would take a million years to understand prime numbers well, if ever. One should have asked him what he aspired to understand about prime numbers that could take that long. As far as I know, no mathematician has even asked the question why the prime numbers, being at the core of arithmetic, do not seem to have any importance in Nature —when yet the Riemann zeta function, so intimately linked to their structure, seems to be reflected in many different kinds of physical systems.
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Phase precession, geometric phase, synchronization and consciousness
Consciousness as the last stronghold
Some days ago I read a short passage by Geidar Dzhemal on the difference between knowledge and information. In it, the Russian author invoked the inviolability that the consciousness of the workers still had in Dickens’ time, when they «went home to sleep and in the night found the way back to their hearts”.
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