MIND·

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The reading order

One path woven through all five — the order the curriculum reads best in. It climbs from the logical and computational substrate, through the physical world, into the quantum, through the synthesis where the threads become one subject, and up to mind. Follow it, or wander; the five paths are always there.

 

MOVEMENT I

The substrate

Logic, computation, and information — the ground everything else stands on. Gödel and Turing draw the limits; Shannon makes information a quantity; Landauer makes it physical.

  1. 1math·0Visual priors~3h
  2. 2math·1The foundations crisis~25h
  3. 3math·2The limits of computation~40h
  4. ↳math·3Proof and mathematical thinkingside-quest~20h
  5. 4information·1Shannon and the birth of information~25h
  6. 5information·2Information meets thermodynamics~17.5h
  7. 6information·3Algorithmic information and the limits of compression~17.5h
MOVEMENT II

The physical world

The other substrate: matter, heat, fields, and light — first measured across the ancient world, then made into physics. The atom, entropy, and the electron are what quantum mechanics and the information age were built to explain.

  1. 7physical·1Roots: how the world was first measured and numbered~26h
  2. 8physical·2Motion, force, and the Scientific Revolution~28h
  3. 9physical·3Atoms and the stuff of the world~22h
  4. 10physical·4Heat, energy, and entropy~25h
  5. 11physical·5Electricity and the electromagnetic field~25h
  6. 12physical·6Light: from rays to photons~22h
  7. 13physical·7The electron, the transistor, and the bridge to computing~22h
MOVEMENT III

Into the quantum

First the minimal mathematics, then the century-long fight over what quantum mechanics is actually saying about reality.

  1. 14quantum·1History: how the fight started~12h
  2. 15math·4Minimal math for quantum foundations~20h
  3. 16quantum·2The interpretational landscape~38h
MOVEMENT IV

The synthesis

Where mathematics, quantum theory, and information turn out to be one subject — Aaronson's reframing of quantum mechanics as a theory of information.

  1. 17math·5Synthesis: computation meets quantumcounts on three paths~25h
  2. 18quantum·3The frontier~20h
  3. ↳quantum·4The Barandes side-questside-quest~20h
  4. ↳information·7It from qubit: the quantum gravity frontierside-quest~15h
MOVEMENT V

Emergence & life

How complexity, and then life itself, arise from simple rules and flowing information — the bridge from physics to biology.

  1. 19information·5Emergence and complexity~35h
  2. 20information·6Information and life~25h
MOVEMENT VI

Mind

The payoff the whole path was climbing toward: consciousness, and the machines now forcing the question into the open. Penrose here closes the loop back to Gödel.

  1. 21mind·1The hard problem and the landscape~17.5h
  2. 22mind·2Neuroscience's approach: NCCs and Global Workspace Theory~25h
  3. 23mind·3Integrated Information Theory (IIT)~25h
  4. 24mind·4Predictive processing and the free energy principle~25h
  5. 25mind·5Heterodox and fringe~17.5h
  6. 26mind·6AI and the question forced open~17.5h