On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mike Reveile <wizardinthewo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can measure a Pineapple... by weight, volume, color, taste, smell, > ripeness... but none of these numbers are the pineapple. They only help me > relate to the pineapple. In this way Math itself (and the entire realm of > computer science) is unreal. I've always felt that math is simply another language like English or Spanish. Language is an abstraction that humans use to convey meaning to other humans. We agreed on common labels and sounds to represent things, actions, and ideas. Math is the same. The laws of physics obviously exist in some sense because we can observe their effects. We represent these effects with numbers and symbols. The number 1 could just as well be the number gobbledeegorp. It doesn't matter. The number one simply represents a single entity of anything at all. Of course this is all from the narrow field of human perception. What humans perceive to be real could, in all possibility, be completely made up in our own minds. I don't want to get to far into the "perception is reality" side of things although. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list