On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 5:34:29 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 3 May 2019, at 16:10, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > The general response here is that there has never existed a program that > has executed outside a computer. And computers are made of matter. > > > That is false. Programs have been discovered in arithmetic, like prime > numbers. Computations are number relation (the sigma_1 one). > > “ >
Who discovered arithmetic and where is it? I get the idea that Arthur Conan Doyle "discovered" Sherlock Holmes, and he "is" in books and people's brains (imaginations). But arithmetic actually has no more reality than that, outside of its operations in brains and man-made things. One can say DNA or other natural things is "doing" arithmetic and so forth. That kind of thing. But where is this thing you call arithmetic? @philipthrift -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/03935abe-2895-421d-94e0-3bcdbfc035bd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
