Paul, have you tried to reverse engineer why your brain made you become interested in doing pure math in the first place? I ask because it sounds like you came up with this list of explicit arguments about the value of such research after you already became interested in it on an intuitive level.
Do you think you now understand what your intuition was doing? Does it now seem like a (subconscious) miscalculation, and if so, can you possibly explain what is the nature of that miscalculation?
Paul, have you tried to reverse engineer why your brain made you become interested in doing pure math in the first place?
No. I seem to have been interested in math since I started developing reliable memories. Most of the things I did back then don’t make any sense to me now.
Paul, have you tried to reverse engineer why your brain made you become interested in doing pure math in the first place? I ask because it sounds like you came up with this list of explicit arguments about the value of such research after you already became interested in it on an intuitive level.
Do you think you now understand what your intuition was doing? Does it now seem like a (subconscious) miscalculation, and if so, can you possibly explain what is the nature of that miscalculation?
No. I seem to have been interested in math since I started developing reliable memories. Most of the things I did back then don’t make any sense to me now.