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Gordon Wong's avatar

Oh I said that didn't I? True but too reductionist. The real way to move forward in the fog or really in ANYTHING is until you get enough new information it's worth reassessing. Maybe that's a foot, maybe that's 10 ft.

The debate between thinking and doing comes down to how you feel about the information you have now and when you think you will get more.

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Nathan Cook's avatar

I'm slowly building a set of examples

See https://open.substack.com/pub/capnsblog?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9z45

And look for "A Polarity:...."

2 so far, no pun intended

Less than "prime number" I think that it's more about "presence and absence" or simply two things that are the inverse of each other.

Addition & Subtraction

Multiplication & Division

Exponentiation & Taking the Logarithm

You do a thing, then you do the inverse and end up at the beginning, establishing the smallest cyclic set

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