Greetings Economists, On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
I'm thinking more of how math originates in social relationships. The thing that makes the brain so "big" is that it contains millions of relationships to other brains, even brains of dead people through messages left by them in language and stories and math, all culture. Algebra might be sort of like commodity fetishism. Relationships between people are portrayed as relationships between things. That's just a creative thought off the top of my head. Don't hold me to it
Doyle; No this completely clarifies what you meant before but I was trying ham handedly to say the same thing without seeing your meaning. I've no doubt now your view is how I understand things, and I like your way of saying this quite distinctly. Doyle
