Nick, I think the questions you are asking won't be answered in a math book but rather in a book like this:
Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being by George Lakoff, Rafael Nuñez http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215709470&sr=8-1 I can recommend it warmly, it will clear up many "mysteries" of mathematics :-) Cheers, Günther Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Oh, I forgot to ask. > > What about the flow in the opposite direction? Can the calculus tell us > anything about how we think about goal direction in human behavior? > > This discussion is posted in www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/MentalismAndCalculus > <http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/MentalismAndCalculus> > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ Research Proposal: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ph.d.-thesis.html ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
