RE: Tentatively Christian; looking for a reasonable discussion
March 24, 2015 at 8:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2015 at 8:50 am by robvalue.)
I'm slightly below Karl Pilkington in the philosophy hierarchy, so I'm utterly unqualified to be giving the following opinion:
Another reality could work so mind-bendingly different to how ours is set up that the concept of a number could mean nothing there.
What other realities are possible is not limited by our ability to imagine them.
So I'd say no, 6 doesn't exist as anything other than an abstract notion and the corresponding brain configurations and such. To say it does would be to imply the universe is doing a bunch of actual calculations and stuff behind the scenes.
But then, since reality is only experienced through my weird viewpoint as far as I know, that may make 6 as "real" as anything else.
Another reality could work so mind-bendingly different to how ours is set up that the concept of a number could mean nothing there.
What other realities are possible is not limited by our ability to imagine them.
So I'd say no, 6 doesn't exist as anything other than an abstract notion and the corresponding brain configurations and such. To say it does would be to imply the universe is doing a bunch of actual calculations and stuff behind the scenes.
But then, since reality is only experienced through my weird viewpoint as far as I know, that may make 6 as "real" as anything else.
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