Re: numbers?

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
John Mikes wrote: ...Rectangles are not found in nature and not are numbers; both are abstractions of things we see in nature... Pray: what things? and how are they 'abstracted into numbers? (Rectangles etc. - IMO - are artifacts made (upon/within) a system of human application). Yet

Re: numbers?

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark argues that reality is a mathematical structure and states that an open problem is finding a mathematical structure which is isomorphic to reality. This might or might not be clear: the mathematical structure with the property that all mathematical structures can be