On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 4:04 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What is more primary than numbers? > > 1. Numbers come from counting. > Numbers come from relationships upon which objective statements can be made (with or without objects to count). For example, I can make and prove a statement about a number with a million digits. Despite that there are not that many things (in my vicinity) to count. > But one counts things (things that are not numbers themselves, in the > primitive case). So the things one counts + the one that counts must be > more primary than numbers. > > 2. Numbers come from lambda calculus (LC). But LC - a programming language > - needs a machine LCM to interpret LC programs. So LC + LCM is more primary > than numbers. > > You can build computers and programs out of equations concerning the arithmetical relationships that exist between numbers. See my post "Do we live in a Diophantine equation": https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/everything-list/KTopDTsOW10/TqYgylAiBgAJ Jason -- 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.
