On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 1:12:32 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > What I am curious to know is how how many of these statements you agree > with: > > "2+2 = 4" was true: > 1. Before I was born > 2. Before humans formalized axioms and found a proof of it > 3. Before there were humans > 4. Before there was any conscious life in this universe > 5. As soon as there were 4 physical things to count > 6. Before the big bang / before there were 4 physical things > > > >
Let + be "concatenation" (perhaps a more primitive notion than addition). So * |**|*+*|**| *= * |**|**|**|* Now I could not write or show that without matter. The *| *is made and stored with electrons in computer memory and then transferred via internet to a computer screen. The concatenation operation producing the right side is made via a computer or brain putting "sticks" together. Before there were "sticks" there was no concatenation of "sticks". (See question 6.) What your brain does with the pixels you see above is up to your brain. - pt -- 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.
