On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 11:16 PM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> I've been reading Marchal's de facto autobiography. It's hugely > impressive, leading me to be more open to his main conclusion, IIUC, that > arithmetic is at the core of reality, yes, physical reality. AG* > *If a mathematical sphere is the fundamental reality and a physical billiard ball is just an approximation of one, then why is a billiard ball astronomically more complex than the sphere? Wouldn't you expect an approximation (or a simulation) to be simpler than the real thing? I think it would be more accurate to say that a meteorologist's mathematical model is an approximation of a physical hurricane, and a physical hurricane is NOT an approximation of a meteorologist's mathematical model. * *Mathematics is the language of physics but mathematics is not physics. That's why Physics is more fundamental than mathematics, and that's why you can't get milk out of the English language word "COW".* John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> swo -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3-uxxKs21iFHw7HN4Mm95T65k7KS_DSHAtzM8dW3kXtw%40mail.gmail.com.
