Re: Raatikainen's critique of Chaitin

From: KRamsay (kramsay_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: 08 Sep 2004 06:48:46 GMT

In article <chl25r$13i$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Nath Rao
<RnNaDthOrMao@yahoo.com> writes:
|These discussions always remind me of a position put forth by J-P
|Changeaux (in the discussions collected in "Conversations about mind,
|matter and mathematics"): Mathematical objects are really creatures of
|the human mind, but it is helpful to think of them as real in order to
|do mathematics. Connes, the other person in these dialogs seems to have
|been scandalized by this, to judge by his response.

Heh. When I'm feeling most sympathetic to antirealism, I often have
the feeling that the crucial issue between realists and antirealists is
the nebulous, nagging perception that somehow thinking things are real
is more than thinking of them as if they were real.

Keith Ramsay

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