On 01 Mar 2014, at 02:36, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Friday, February 28, 2014 5:32:48 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote:
"If it's all math, then where does math come from?"
Strange to say, elementary maths just appears to be a fact. That is,
it is a fact that 1+1=2.
These shapes appear to be letters and words also, but they aren't.
All it takes is a small chemical change in your brain and 1+1 could
= mustard.
It can change your mind into believing that 1+1=mustard, but 1+1 would
still be equal to 2.
Even in a completely normative state of mind, 1+1 = 2 doesn't apply
to everything.
1+1=2 independently of the misused that someone can do with that theory.
Once cloud plus one cloud equals one large cloud, or maybe one
raining cloud. Math is about a very specific aspect of sense - the
sense which objects make when we count them.
No math can study clouds too. Cf Mandelbrot.
That sense is abstracted into a language which extends it beyond
literal objects to virtual objects,
If literal objects exists, but there are no evidences, and such an
hypothesis introduces difficulties which have no use.
but no matter what you do with math, it has no subjective interior.
You don't know that.
It's about doing and knowing that is desired by what which is
already feeling and being. Doing and knowing by itself, if such a
thing could exist, would be information, but it could never feel or
be anything.
OK, but your argument have never shown that.
Bruno
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