Brent, Yes, that's consistent with the theory I present in my book. Specifically that computational reality itself is continuous in the sense that there are NO separate individual things. This continuous reality does however contain overlapping computational domains based on dynamic computational boundaries that emerge naturally at various scales.
However it is very difficult for organisms to compute their functioning on this basis so they had to evolve a different method to improve their functioning. So part of what organisms do in the mental simulations of reality on the basis of which they compute their functioning, is to model the actual continuous information of reality into discrete things and their relationships. This is done because it is much easier to compute organismic functioning on the basis of a small set discrete individual classical scale things than a huge dynamic mass of continuous elemental information. The computations become many orders of magnitude simpler. So as Cooper apparently suggests, the notion of a world consisting of distinct objects, is how humans model reality rather than reality itself. This also alludes to the origin of H-math from R-math. Edgar On Friday, February 28, 2014 5:58:13 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 2/28/2014 2:32 PM, LizR wrote: > > "If it's all math, then where does math come from?" > > > > Strange to say, elementary maths just appears to be a fact. That is, it > is a fact that > > 1+1=2. > > Or it comes from our conceptualizing the world as consisting of distinct > objects and > counting them, c.f. William S. Cooper "The Origin of Reason" and Lakoff > and Nunez "Where > Mathematics Comes From". > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
