Bill,
The universe has a life, a behavior, a way of acting-up.
Our logic can capture it and slide along-side it (!), because we are not too
different, and, in fact, we do better not to think of ourselves as separate
from the universe.
The Universe is our larger and better half. ;-)
The fact that Mathematics has some (astonishingly-fitting) success in modeling
Nature, the universe, shows that something is "up" with Nature which makes it
seems as if Nature is not too wild, not chaotic AT ALL, rather structured,
comprehensible, and kindly. ;-)
There is an Isomorphism. Just a similarity in structure, between our Math, our
models, and Nature. Surprise!
And truly surprising it is.
Aristotle would not have believed it (in fact, he did not).
The reliance on Aristotle by the Church -- and others -- as an Authority in
Physics, in fact *delayed* the development of Western Science about 1500 years.
EXPERIMENT was discouraged: one had to check what "The-Philosopher" had to
say. It was reliance on Authority, as bad as the authority of the Church.
Otherwise, we might have landed on the moon in the year 500.
Sad, but true. We have to live with this. It's too late to kick anybody in
the hind-quarters. Except ourselves. Only because we're here. Not because it
will do any good.
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Reality does NOT have any 'intrinsic logic'. Reality is what I'd call chaos
> or at least not bound by human logic.
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