On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 1:03:33 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 10:46:31 PM UTC, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 12:27:46 AM UTC+2, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> *There are no rectangles in this or any universe.* >>> >> >> What is the shape of your screen then? >> > > *Read some Plato. A triangle is a perfect mathematical form. I see > something that approximates it. I extrapolate in my mathematical > imagination the perfect triangle. AG* >
Then you see an imperfect triangle or rectangle or whatever. Tegmark doesn't care whether a mathematical object is "perfect" or not. For him any structure is a mathematical object. -- 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.
