On 20 May 2012, at 19:03, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 5/20/2012 9:39 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Stephen,
I have a more general question. I am not a mathematician and I do
not quite understand the relationship between mathematics and the
world that surround me.
Dear Evgenii,
I am just a person with insatiable curiosity and the strange
ability/curse of dyslexia. I consider myself a student of
philosophy. I think of mathematics as a more precise form of
language and that it is, like all other languages, a representation
of experience in the collective sense. Some people believe that
there is a one-to-one and onto relationship between mathematics and
the totality of what exists. I do not have sufficient information
for form an opinion yet.
Nor me. But with comp, we know that there are no such correspondence.
Now, using axiomatic, or semi-axiomatic, like mathematicians, in any
field, makes possible to progress, even when disagreeing on the
interpretations on the terms.
It seems to me that your writing implies that there is the intimate
connections between mathematics and the Universe.
Well, our ability to understand representations, mathematical or
purely linguistic, argues strongly for some kind of intimate
relationship between representations and the Universe (which is to
me a word representing the totality of what exists).
OK.
Could you please express your viewpoint in more detail on why
findings in mathematics could influence our understanding of the
world? From a viewpoint of a not-mathematician this looks a bit
like a numerology.
We use mathematics to reason and argue about the world because
that is all we have. We cannot communicate with each other without
the ability to represent.
And the ability to point, too.
Bruno
These are good questions!
Evgenii
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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