I’m not buying it, even from the great RP. His argument that math exists independently from us amounts to I really really want it to be that way because it’s so good at what it does. But he provides the way to dispute himself with his discussion of the Greeks. If math was out there to be discovered, why didn’t they themselves discover special relativity? The math behind it is out there to be discovered just by thinking about it. It’s not a matter of technology. In fact, what IMHO is going on is math is a human created technique, that can be built upon to the nth degree, that can then be used to describe the world very very accurately. It only seems to be a platonic thing because it’s been around so long, and yes, humans are incredibly smart and have developed it so incredibly. But it’s still just a human creation.
Think about numbers. RP kind of mentioned this. But say the number 2. That’s not a thing, not even a platonic thing. It’s the result of a process, namely counting. We do something over and over, and label the result with a name, like 2. So I always get a kick out of when someone wonders how big is infinity. There’s no such thing. It’s just the counting process that never ends. Anywho, thanks for sharing the videos.
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