Would galaxy-scale intelligence even have Navier–Stokes? Twitter debates whether intelligence is compression
rickasaurus · x · 2026-11-14
sopharicks argues the Navier–Stokes equations arise from human observers' limitations — we can't see individual water molecules, hence continuous-fluid properties like density and temperature; a galaxy-scale intelligence tracking every molecule wouldn't derive them. rickasaurus counters that intelligence fundamentally is compression and abstraction. A lively debate on physics, observer limits, and the nature of intelligence.
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