> > Hi, > > > Also remember that scientific theories exit in only in the minds of > > people. Presumably there exists some correlation with the actual way > > nature works, but we will only know the way our mind presents the > > universe to us. > > surely the purpose of mathematics is to remove this dependency. There > are almost certainly things that our minds cannot comprehend that > other minds could, in just the same way that there are things we can > comprehend that dogs and chimpanzees cannot. But mathematics and logic > allow us to explore ideas that are otherwise beyond our grasp. They > allow us to take ideas that we *can* grasp and stretch them beyond our > limitations, while keeping them consistent. This is why they seem > weird to us. But to schoolchildren on the planet Tralfamadore they may > be no weirder than building blocks are to human children.
So it goes. See also "Mimsy were the Borogoves", by Henry Kuttner, for another good story based on a similar possibility.
