• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Overhappening doesn’t mean more things that happen. It means the same number, or perhaps fewer, things which happen, but with a greater magnitude and vitality.

    • KnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      You want to do this? You want to argue about made up words? Then I’ll need a full proof of how your definition disproves what I said. Thesis on my desk by morning.

      • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Let

        t_n = a_n * t
        

        be the objective thought content contained in event n;

        Then the total thought content T in N events is given by

        T = Σ a_n * t
        

        Suppose the following law is empirically observed: As N tends toward infinity, the sum T approaches proportionality to the number of events N; in other words,

        T = aN
        

        where a is a constant, an empirical average amount of thought content for a single event. (The larger the series of events, the more that larger and smaller events “cancel out”.)

        The total thought content T can rise for two reasons, since it is a product: either of its factors a or N could increase. The same is true for a decrease in the respective quantities.

        Suppose comrade Luisa applies 2T of thinking to a series of N events. How can one explain this?

        Possibility A: The proportionality law applies. The actual content of the events is T, but Luisa thought twice as hard as necessary per event.

        Possibility B: The proportionality law does not apply, because the number of events is not statistically large. Therefore she happened to observe an uncharacteristic set of events with large thought content

        T_observed = Σ a_n * t >> T_average
        

        Your post seems more like Possibility A because that is when the number of events is thought to be overestimated from the applied thought.