> >"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras
that all
> >things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying,
even
> >downright silly.
> >
> >When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras
that
> >all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently
true." (N.
> >Weiner)
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Um, the GUI wasn't invented until after Weiner was dead so the
above seems of dubious origin.
I don't remember the origin of that quote.
Ma se non e vero e ben trovato
"The space-time continuum? Even continuum existence itself?
Except as an idealization neither the one entity nor the other
can make any claim to be a primordial category in the
description of nature." [John Wheeler]
Ian
But can nature be "described" without
mathematics?
And are any "natural" entities needed to
"describe" arithmoi?
If the answer to both questions is negative, which then is
"primordial?"
Shane
