luck today
@ Billy’s coffee shop
Grabbing coffee from Billy’s with Celina before our planned library session, we ran into Adrian. He invited me to instead join a talk by Professor Hannes Leitgib at the Munich School for Mathematical Philosophy. I impulsively crashed the front row of the talk: the Logic of Vector Space Models. Though the name did not suggest it to me before deciding to dive in to it, the talk was about belief-revision in arguments and the potential formalization of these sorts of epistemic processes which I have been devastatingly interested in for many years (non-mathematically)! This was the first talk in weeks on which I could concentrate for its entirety and was able to follow without my clearly attention-deficit-disorder-riddled mind wandering off on any tangents.
The talk sparked in me many thoughts regarding my personal life (which has been full of belief-revision during arguments and of thoughts on epistemic processes), but in this post I just want to note and share my feelings on my decision to follow my impulsive desire to attend the talk which led to this intensely fortunate sequence of mental events. I initially thought that I should go to the library and work on my paper, but I wanted to attend the talk and try to learn from Hannes, one of the best philosophers (Adrian thinks) in the world. I followed exactly what I wanted, and I got more cognitive benefits/advancements from this experience than I could have possibly gotten done in 1.5 hours at the library. My gut instinct has today, in this very impulsive and open-to-new-experiences way I live my life, benefitted me much more than whatever I had decided I should do. I feel giddy about my personality today and so fortunate that I have the luxury to live so freely pursuing all that I love. I am… ecstatic! 🙂
