monk_cactus on Nostr: To the extent that physical objects like rocks exist, we only know about them through ...
To the extent that physical objects like rocks exist, we only know about them through our limited perceptual faculties. And those faculties have been honed to give us a representation of physical objects that is somehow useful. So there’s a difference between the actual rock and how we perceive it. Math is interesting because it’s part rock, and part perceptual faculty (imo). The parts of math that describe properties of the physical world do exist, like the rock, but math is our flawed perception of those properties (maybe lol)
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2023-04-13 15:05:50Event JSON
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