Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread Brent Meeker
On 7/29/2010 10:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org mailto:her...@acm.org wrote: Numbers exist not in any physical sense but in the same sense that any idea exists - they exist in the sense that minds exist that believe logical

Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Buda
Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org wrote: Numbers exist not in any physical sense but in the same sense that any idea exists - they exist in the sense that minds exist that believe logical propositions about them.

Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.comwrote: On 7/29/2010 10:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org wrote: Numbers exist not in any physical sense but in the same sense that any idea exists - they exist in the

Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Buda
Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 7/29/2010 10:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org wrote: ... I do understand that the existence of the

Calculabilité, physique et cognition

2010-07-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
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Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Jul 2010, at 17:03, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 7/29/2010 10:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org wrote: Numbers exist not in any physical sense but in the

Re: numbers?

2010-07-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 July 2010 17:35, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ... and if you believe that the universe can be accounted for by a some consistent mathematical structure. Which is an open problem. Assuming mechanism, physical universes have no real existence at all, except as first person