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Does anyone else study Category Theory in the hope of finding Revelation/Truth? I'm mostly kidding but for some reason CT scratches a different kind of itch.



I've watched some lectures about CT (and they flew over my head pretty quickly) and I did get the feeling that on one hand there is some deep insight there (that I was barely able to glimpse), but on the other hand it felt like that eagle eye view that CT gives is missing too many details.


Physics say it's all probabilities. CT says it's all relationships.

CT is related amusingly to abstract nonsense. Basically CT's ability to prove things at such a high level that provides no insights into the going ons in low level details.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/823289/abstract-non...


The term "abstract nonsense" was actually coined in context of category theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense#History




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