Recent content by John Mathon

Great question. I would be skeptical of the AI/Deep Learning area. AI has gone through fads before including 1980 with Mathematica like stuff, then 90s with Rule based systems, then 00 with machine learning. Now in 2010 we had Deep learning. Each of the previous booms looked promising and...

Roger Penrose has spent quite a life basically pondering this issue. He invented Spinors and Twistors to essentially give "life" to the idea of complex dimensions. My simplistic interpretation of the need for complex numbers is that they reflect an underlying Riemann topology, i.e. that the...