Math 4 Wisdom. "Mathematics for Wisdom" by Andrius Kulikauskas.

Math 4 Wisdom community in March, 2023: Bill Pahl, Andrius Kulikauskas, Michael Schreiber, Kirby Urner, Thomas Gajdosik, John Harland, Jinan KB, Jon Brett.

Welcome to Math 4 Wisdom. Read the transcript and watch the video.

Community

Math 4 Wisdom is an investigatory community for absolute truth led by me, Andrius Kulikauskas. In particular, our community supports my efforts to develop Wondrous Wisdom, a language of wisdom based on the cognitive frameworks that I have been documenting since 1982.

Contact me at: m a t h 4 w i s d o m @ g m a i l . c o m

I invite you to join the Math 4 Wisdom Discussion List.

Here is our archive. Thank you, Kirby Urner, Jon Brett, Haris Shekeris and Ryan Buchanan for your many letters. My letters include:

Our activity is focusing on our study groups.

John Harland and I lead our study group for the mathematics of the divisions of everything, which are the basic cognitive frameworks, which may be modeled by eightfold Bott periodicity, especially by way of Clifford algebras, which I am trying to understand. Much of this mathematics, including Lie theory and spinors, overlap with John's research program into the foundations of quantum physics. John has a PhD in functional analysis.
Aslam Kakar (Pashtun Studies Institute) and I lead our sociology study group. We want to develop a grammar of sociology. In March 2024, Aslam will defend his PhD in global affairs at Rutgers University.
Jere Northrop (Timberfish Technologies) and I lead our study group for the language of wisdom. Jere has a PhD in biophysics, is an innovator in environmental technologies, and has thought through a constructed language, Ododu, inspired by the Relational Symmetry Paradigm. We are seeking fundamental connections between this Relational Symmetry Paradigm and Wondrous Wisdom.

Also, Andrius leads the Theory of Wisdom subgroup of the Lovers of Wisdom.

Please support me through Patreon. Thank you to John Harland, Bill Pahl and anonymous supporters!

Latest Research

What am I, Andrius Kulikauskas, currently researching?

I am reviewing my understanding of the meaning of life as framed by the division of everything into six perspectives for morality. I will make a video, "The Meaning of Life: We Internalize, God Immortalizes".
I am trying to understand Bott periodicity and how it may express the eight-cycle of divisions of everything, which I describe here.
I am reading "Social Theory: A Basic Tool Kit", recommended by Aslam Kakar, and seeking examples of how the perspectives of Individual, Nature, Culture, Action, Social Structure are used to figure things out in sociology. Aslam and I are interested in what it would mean to add Vision to this list. I am further curious how we might study the role of values at the nexus between individual and society as regards functionality and dysfunctionality.
I am studying Jere Northrop's writings on the Relational Symmetry Paradigm, in particular, The Philosopher's Dream.
I am studying Christer Nylander's proposal on Curious Listening Dialogue.
I want to read A Third Transition in Science? by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli about the impossibility of modeling or engineering emergence, and also How Organisms Come to Know the World by Roli, Jaeger and Kauffmann.

See also recently changed pages in my Exposition and Research sections.

Wondrous Andrius

Current Focus

I am working on upcoming videos on a variety of subjects in a variety of formats.

In mathematics, I am starting a study group on the math of divisions of everything. I am studying how divisions of everything manifest in specific structures, such as the Zig-Zag Lemma for the threesome and the Yoneda Embedding for the foursome. More generally, I am investigating how divisions of everything manifest through chain complexes and exact sequences, where the number of perspectives matches the number of mappings. I believe this all comes together in Bott periodicity. I am trying to understand Bott periodicity by way of the binomial theorem, Grassmannians, Clifford algebras, symmetric spaces and spin structures. This is also related to my interest in classifying adjunctions.

In math education, and math epistemology, I am collecting examples of ways of figuring things out. I have documented a system of 24 ways and I will be making a series of videos about them. The first in this series is my most popular video, Surface Structure vs. Deep Structure (Math Epistemology).

In physics, I am relating the combinatorics of Feynman diagrams and Hermite polynomials, with the hope to extend quantum field theory further through five natural coordinate systems based on the fivefold classification of Sheffer polynomials. I am interpreting this classification as the fivesome, a cognitive framework for decision making, for relating a subsystem and a system, based on two kinds of causality, backwards from effect to cause - every effect has had its cause, and forwards from cause to effect - not every cause has had its effects. I zoom on Mondays with John Harland.

As regards peacemaking, an application of wisdom, I am encouraging dialogue in good will with supporters of both Russia and Ukraine. I am working with Konstantin Fomin, the leader of Reforum Space Vilnius, a center for new arrivals from Russia. We are organizing meetings there and elsewhere and also an email discussion group in Russian.

In wondrous wisdom, I am currently overviewing and clarifying my findings with a playlist of videos. Investigating further, I want to relate God's questions (Whether, What, How, Why God exists?) and human's questions (What is the difference between God and goodness in eternal life, wisdom, good will, God's will?) In particular, I am seeking a relationship between God's and human's frameworks for wisdom. As data, I am analyzing the wisdom in meaningful experiences in my own life. Perhaps you would likewise share, study and model your meaningful experiences?

In my personal growth, I am at a lull. For several months, I will be immersed in outreach, letting others know about Math 4 Wisdom and appreciating those for whom it resonates. I suppose it is a time for me to be mindful of what I value in life. I also want to grow as a leader.

Absolute Truth

The purpose of Math 4 Wisdom is to show that we can work together as a community in wisdom, speaking a language of wisdom, fostering a culture of wisdom. This involves us seeking and finding a deep understanding, at first in nothing, but then in something, and hopefully, in anything, and ultimately, in everything.

Such a deep agreement implies an ultimate context of absolute truth that is conditional and unconditional, subjective and objective, deniable and undeniable. I find such a context by studying the limits of my imagination. What is the prison of my mind? What are the cognitive frameworks that I do not escape?

A basic example is the concept of everything. It has four properties:

Everything has no external context. It includes its context, it includes the world, it includes us.
Everything has no internal structure. It is chaotic, it is orderly. All things are true of everything.
Everything is the simplest algorithm. It has no filter. Whatever we think of, we put into everything.
Everything is a required concept. We all have it. We can't get rid of it. We couldn't have learned it, for all that we learn is bounded but everything is unbounded.

Further examples are divisions of everything into

two perspectives (opposites coexist; all is the same) for structuring existence;
three perspectives (taking a stand; following through; reflecting) for structuring participation;
four perspectives (whether; what; how; why) for structuring knowledge.

I have documented a language of such cognitive frameworks. I call this language Wondrous Wisdom. I appeal to advanced mathematics to substantiate this language. Math 4 Wisdom brings together a community to grow fluent in this language, to clarify, develop, investigate and apply this language, to manifest the wisdom, if any, of this language.

Advanced Mathematics

Wondrous Wisdom

My writings

Vocabulary

I study the limits of our imagination, what we can imagine or not. Let's embrace the cognitive frameworks we can't escape and leverage them for a conceptual language of wisdom that we can express, validate and apply with the help of mathematics and all manner of sciences, creative arts and moral disciplines.

24 ways of figuring things out.

8 states of mind.

6 transformations of mood.