Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Perhaps strings might better model materials and their behavior than current chemistry and materials science can. And suggest the possibioity of creating new materials (composistes) as well as explaining little understood materials phenomena. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.n

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal My understanding is that qualia are subjective or 1-view, while the realm of science is completely objective (3-view). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/6/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content -

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I have heard it said that every year a certain mathematics society gets together to celebrate the fact that not one of their papers has proven to be useful. Pragmatists on the other hand believe that only the useful is true. Take your pick. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.ne

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Love is a qualia and science cannot touch qualia. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 21:28:12

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Engineering advantages ? A decade before the Wright brothers flew their airplane, people would have said, "You're going to do WHAT ?" Many if not all innovations like that seem at present to be crazy or impossible. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever i

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona The only way to know reality is subjectively, just as Descartes found. He threw everything out until all he could know for sure was that he could think. Reality is what is happening now, which is what we can only know subjectively, from inside, by aquaintance. We cannot kn