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Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 02:06:50 UTC No. 16173194
>Newton and Leibniz discovered calculus independently of each other at nearly the same time
>Descartes and Fermat discovered Analytic Geometry independently of each other at nearly the same time
>Turing and Church discovered Turing-complete systems interdependently of each other at nearly the same time
How does this keep happening?
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 02:25:55 UTC No. 16173211
>>16173194
You can't come up with a theory? Isn't it obvious?
Because of the times they were living it, they were provided similar educations, reading materials, and inspiration that led them to those same discoveries independently.
Or aliens/god are encoding synchronicity in our history to fuck with us (*nudge* *nudge* "doesn't it seem like you're living in a simulation? hahaha").
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 05:17:06 UTC No. 16173354
I think it could easily be explained by people being in similar environments but I choose instead to believe it's synchronicity because that is more interesting
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 01:51:59 UTC No. 16174845
>>16173194
it's mostly a consequence of new knowledge building on current knowledge