On 16 August 2014 22:45, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bruno IMO does not end the chain so-to-speak because he does not say where > the natural numbers come from other than invoking Platonia. Super-string > theory does. But it invokes even more turtles, like where do the ten > dimensions come from. > http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0044v1.pdf > > Are the natural numbers the integers?
If so I don't think he needs to say where they come from. They may exist (abstractly) from logical necessity, that is they couldn't be any other way in any possible world. This is of course a bone of contention, because some people think there's nothing natural about 1+1=2, but it seems to me, at least, less contentious than any of the other contenders, although I'm willing to entertain any possibilities that anyone suggests, when that happens (except God, I've worked out that using something infinitely complicated to explain the world is a retrograde step). I'm pretty sure string theory is mathematical in form, and so can't be the end of the chain because it is relying on maths - hence it has (at least) one lower level in explanatory space, so to speak, -- 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/d/optout.
