(October 14, 2016 at 12:35 am)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: @Aractus
I'm not sure i understand the point you are trying to make... Because there are arbirary sequences, or nonsense math, that proves math is artificial? Do you not recognise the relevence and applicability math has to the natural world? Regardless of what nonsense we can come up with, i don't beleive that means anything.
If i missunderstood please elaborate.
The only part of maths that is observational is "if I have three apples and I remove two I have one apple". You can't observe the presence of zero apples, nor can you observe negative apples, nor n*i apples. You can observe division: if I divide my 3 apples into 3 equal groups they each contain 1 apple, but you can't observe multiplication: if I multiply my 3 apples by two I still have my three apples. That specific numbers have some relationship to the real world doesn't mean that mathematics itself does. There are infinitely many numbers, and most of them have no relationship to the real world.
How much matter by volume is in the universe? No one knows the answer to that because we don't know how many times we can divide subatomic particles to discover new ones. Which brings me back to the point that while you might think you observe a physical world, the reality is it's almost entirely empty space.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
