On 10/19/2018 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
For example, in the year 400 Hypatia was teaching both the
Mathematics of Diophantus, and the theology of Plotinus. That was
very common.
Are we supposed to take these early thinkers as definitive? I'm with
JKC on this. We've come a long way since Plotinus and his mystic
opinions are about as useful Grog the caveman’s.
Well this shows only you never read it. It shows that you think we
have solved all the problem in philosophy of mind and in metaphysics.
It shows that you take granted Aristotle theology. You are a believer
in the physical universal, as the main explanation of consciousness.
There is no experimental evidence for that.
But there is a proof that arithmetic emulates all universal numbers,
which makes a highly sort of Indra nets.
A physical universe? I am afraid it might not be my religion.
The ability of the digits to do prestidigitation seem far more
plausible to me.
But as a scientist working in exactly that field, my opinion is of no
value. I show the theory and the experiences.
Right. And I assume you think you have advanced beyond Plato and
Plotinus who did not even know Goedel's theorem or the Church-Turing
thesis. Yet you want us to read them. No physicists tells his student
to go read Einstein to learn relativity or to read Heisenberg to learn
quantum mechanics. Referring back the founders texts is a mark of
religion...not science.
Brent
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