we are swimming in it (new)

I just read Chris Bogart's little connection between category theory and the buddhist doctrine of dependent origination. Talk about convergence, why don't I? I found it by googling for buddhism and category theory. I get the impression that this is fairly new in this scheme of things.

So next I googled for the phrase "dependent origination" and "functor", and got the the following gem. It seems that it's fairly plausible to make translations between Buddhist writings, in particular Nagarjuna, and category-theoretic expressions. The time is ripe for this kind of reasoning. There was the part of Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach where he talks about Indra's net and Tumbolia just a few pages apart.