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Hilma 2022-03-20 09:01:36

Science is based on assumptions, and the emergence of assumptions is based on human subjective feelings. For the description of an objective world, the inferences of these assumptions must be in line with reality, otherwise the assumptions are false propositions. Of course, the assumptions that correspond to reality are scientific theories. Assumptions cannot be proven, and it can even be said that any knowledge is biased.

Max's assumption is similar to the "everything is number" of many mathematicians. No one knows whether this statement is correct or not. It is just a "belief". Can you say "number is everything"? It seems impossible. The relationship between numbers and everything is the relationship between theory and reality. A theory can approach reality, but it can never reach reality. In other words, reality is an asymptote of theory. A theory is an idealization of reality.

Nonlinear science offers a possibility to explain the whole world with the simplest principles.

As a mathematician, Max's obsession with ideals is understandable, but self-mutilation is meaningless. I don't understand why he doesn't die if he drills a hole in his brain-! .

Facing the coercion and temptation of big companies and churches, Max knew that this was a secret, and once it was used, there would be unforeseen consequences.

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Extended Reading
  • Dejah 2022-04-20 09:01:37

    After watching this film I feel like I can live with my tinnitus at peace because at least it has only one sound

  • Gracie 2022-03-24 09:01:39

    Wittgenstein: "It is necessary to remain silent about what cannot be said." It can also be said that one must remain silent about what is not well understood. Through constant hints and narration, it seems to be narrating a modern Icarus fable. The pursuit of beauty and truth often pays the price of death. Life is such a paradox. But I still feel that this is a story that has been replaced with concepts, a little bit of a mystery, or I really don't understand it.

Pi quotes

  • Maximillian Cohen: [In front of the bathroom mirror. Pushes a live power-drill into the side of his head]

  • Rabbi Cohen: [a group of Kabbalists, the Rabbi speaks to Max] The Talmud tells us it began 2,000 years ago, when the Romans destroyed the second temple.

    Maximillian Cohen: What is this?

    Rabbi Cohen: Max, you will understand everything if you listen... The Romans also destroyed our priesthood, the Cohanim. And with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret. In the center of the temple was the heart of the Jewish life, the Holy of Holies. It was the earthly residence of our God. The one God. It housed the Ark of the Tabernacle, which stored the original ten commandments which God gave to Moses. Only one man was allowed to enter this Holy of Holies on one day, the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. On the Day of Atonement, all of Israel would descend upon Jerusalem to watch the High Priest, the Cohen Godul, make his trip to the Holy of Holies. If the High Priest was pure, he would emerge moments later and we were secured a prosperous year. It meant that we were closer to the Messianic Age. But, if he was impure, he would die instantly and it meant that we were doomed. The Holy Priest had one ritual to perform in the Holy of Holies, he had to intone a single word... That word, was the true name of God.

    Maximillian Cohen: So?

    Rabbi Cohen: The true name, which only the Cohanim knew, was 216 letters long.