RE: Applied vs. Theoretical

2002-12-05 Thread Marchal Bruno
Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim May wrote: As I hope I had made clear in some of my earlier posts on this, mostly this past summer, I'm not making any grandiose claims for category theory and topos theory as being the sine qua non for understanding the nature of reality. Rather,

Re: Applied vs. Theoretical

2002-12-03 Thread Osher Doctorow
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RE: Applied vs. Theoretical

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
Tim May wrote: As I hope I had made clear in some of my earlier posts on this, mostly this past summer, I'm not making any grandiose claims for category theory and topos theory as being the sine qua non for understanding the nature of reality. Rather, they are things I heard about a decade or

Re: Applied vs. Theoretical

2002-12-01 Thread Osher Doctorow
From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Dec. 1, 2002 1243 Sorry for keeping prior messages in their entirety in my replies. Let us consider the decision of category theory to use functors and morphisms under composition and objects and commuting diagrams as their fundamentals. Because of