On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:39:43PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > > > It's map and territory, like the finger and the Moon. The finger points to > the Moon to indicate it, but isn't itself the Moon. Likewise with "2+2=4" >
But when the map is in one-to-one correspondence with the territory? Isn't it just the territory then? That's the sort of recording we're talking about here, not some pale imitation. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
