On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> >> >> As I've said 6.02*10^23 times it's irrelevant if matter is primary or >> not, matter is still necessary to make calculations or perform intelligent >> behavior or produce consciousness. > > > > > I think Bruno agrees with that > That's news to me. If so Bruno should have said that several years ago and a great many electrons wouldn't have had to give up their lives. >> >> And even if matter isn't primary that doesn't necessarily mean >> mathematics is. > > > > > The question is can one be derived from the other? > I think so, but neither may be primary. > > > William S. Cooper, "The Origin of Reason" makes an argument that > mathematics is a way of brains thinking about things that was found by > evolution, just like mobility, metabolism, reproduction,...and a lot of > other functions. > I agree with that, but evolution works according to the laws of physics so a animal who thought 1+1=0 would have fewer offspring than one who believed 1+1=2. So we'd agree with ET's mathematics because it's the language of physics. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
