On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
