FW Lawvere / Colin McLarty / John Baez Evening conversations 2003
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Recorded at Evening conversations (2003), featuring FW Lawvere, Colin McLarty, John Baez. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.

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0:00 But it wasn't about, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, it wasn't about the name, I hope you don't leave out this for the rest of the conference. What? I said, I hope you don't leave out this for the rest of the conference. No, no, no, it's actually the same way. You don't go and call Gennady a draconian. No, no, no, no. So, instead of just good health, there's nothing to do about a good health. It's the same thing as a draconian between an actual physical application and a global one. It puts me in a strong position. I know you can't get too long. And that's one of the reasons what you're going to tell me. It's going to totally come back close. Yeah, I know. Well, I've had a lot of communication with the math department. I think it's a little small. It's too long to get into the record. It actually turns out that it's nothing. We don't know exactly who you're going to tell us about in Russia. Which has been going on like this. There's something funny about all this. What can they say? I don't know. I've been so desperate to get out of there, you know, because he seems to have fallen out of the film. But I mean, you know, it's not a mystery to me. He sends me these emails from Crosby and Crosby, you know, Russo and English, which I, you know, I know all by heart. This is all very fine. So I told him, of course, I couldn't get the Crosby requirement. That would be impossible so I can't supervise the background because I'm not into mathematics. I'm a philosophy professor. I don't know. I just don't think it's new. You know what I'm saying?

2:30 I'll always teach. Workarounds, but I mean, I, I, I, I, I told him, I mean, I have some PhDs in mathematics, but in his case, he wanted to do something about this theory. Well, actually, he had some ideas. You can find someone, you know, you can find someone, you know, you can find somebody, you know, to actively, you know, I can't, I can't do it alone. I've never had worked out. Thank you for your attention. You can't structure it, I don't know, against that perspective at all. You have some very simple structural things, which is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, You don't warn me, you say, well, you know, you've got a lot of very complex problems involved in mathematics and so on. It's pure category, what's happening. It's more category than the language.

5:00 Now, now, we came here to talk, you see, to make a job that's even very political. Compact Closers. You can construct compact closers, you know what I'm talking about? They're all three of them there. I do, I like that. So you actually, you have a very interesting way of plugging things in. I'm going to talk about this in a minute. You have a lot of categories which are very close. You have something which is called a phase, a sort of feedback loop, and that gives some sort of symmetric feedback, you get always a close category with some sort of duality, some sort of duality in your logic, that things are interacting well. That's what happens with the compression and stuff, but that is inside of you. And I've been reading it already, the sort of close. There are a lot of things under control. Let's see what I have to do with the third row, like I was with you. Well, you know, it might not expand. It might not expand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, it might not expand. You know, you're not getting 50 expand entries a day, but it's terrible. There's this mechanism that the university tags. The university tags. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You automatically put, yeah, because otherwise you're sending your whole thing coming up spanned. But the point is, they put this down, and then it automatically goes down.