> [Case] > The problem with rounding error is much deeper than this I fear. The > Platonic Ideal was the product of the idealized world created by Greek > mathematics. Points, lines and planes do not exist and the real world. > Perfectly defined length and breadth do not exist in the real world. > Nothing in reality is exactly one meter in length. It was this "lack of > perfection" or slop in the real world that made the ideal world seem > perfect and the real world ugly.
[Ian] Yes, at the most fundamental levels of "physics" these rounding errors are "quanta". and at this level of about as "absolute" as one can get, we are as Davdi M implies in the realm of metaphors on top of metaphors, with little hope of anything we can experience directly. [Case] As I have mentioned before mathematics is a system of metaphor without ambiguity. But hasn't QM rather changed the way we should be looking at things? Instead of pure cause and effect and idealizations, science has become probabilistic. The real world is messy because this or that might happen. Only in a perfect and mechanical world do things happen because they must. I have also mentioned in the past that we are inherently metaphorical beings. Our entire experience consists of rendering sense data into perception. Our internal world is "like" the real world. Input and output, with us, it's all metaphor. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
