On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:51 AM, benjayk <benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > > > But with comp, you are using "1+1=2", and much more, to tackle the > > subjective truth of a universal number thinking about "1+1=2". So, if > > you reject arithmetical truth, comp makes no much sense. > I didn't write I reject arithmetical truth. I reject arithmetical realism; > I > don't think arithmetical truth exists seperately from its observer. 1+1=2 > is > still true, just not independently of us. The reason is that 1+1=2 makes > sense because it is true, and truth is fundamentally linked to a subject > that intuits what truth is. > This doesn't mean that 1+1=2 is true for me and not true for somebody else, > but that is necessarily true because I (=consciousness, not ego) > necessarily > am. > My hypothesis is that truth is equal to awareness / consciousness / "I > am-ness" and all kind of expressions of truth are just... well, expressions > of the truth and not independent of it. 1+1=2 is an expression of 1+1 being > itself as 2. > This hypothesis makes everything mysterious, but this may just be as it is. > The truth is necessarily mysterious. All explanations are just expressions > of its mysterious nature, that allow us to look deeper into what it is, but > never giving an explanation *for* it. It's beyond explanations, seeing > itself through explanations. > > Ben, Would you say that e^*(2 * Pi * i) is exactly equal to 1, rather than approximately equal to 1? If you believe that it is, you are believing in the independent existence of infinitely long numbers e and Pi, numbers which have never been fully grasped by any human, and potentially never grasped by any conscious being anywhere (due to their infinite nature). Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
