On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 1:02:04 AM UTC, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > 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. >
*So what? The point I am making is that some mathematical objects exist but are not instantiated in physical reality, thus falsifying his hypothesis, unless you insist that they are instantiated in other universes, in which case you have a non falsifiable theory, which isn't a scientific theory. AG * -- 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.
