On 15 June 2015 at 11:13, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:49:40AM +1200, LizR wrote: > > On 15 June 2015 at 10:41, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > > > To summarise, there appears to be two quite distinct questions here: > > > > > > a) Given there are regularities in Nature, why is our mathematics so > > > effective. As Brent says, this is not surprising - evolution would see > > > to it that we would choose a mathematical system out of the many > > > possible that would be effective. > > > > > > > That isn't surprising, of course - but I assume Brent wasn't being quite > > *that* disingenuous. What is surprising (if anything at all is) is that > our > > world is amenable to description by maths. > > > More of a genuine misunderstanding rather than disingenuity, I would say... > > I expect so, but Brent does seem to veer between brilliant insights and pointless comments, so I feel I have to stay on my toes and object vigorously to the silly bits, while gasping in awe at the rest. (That's probably not a bad thing, actually.) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
