Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science
From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:29:08 -0600
Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
> robert j. kolker said:
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>>Albert wrote:
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>>>Reality is not based on axioms, but rather physical laws.
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>>Physical laws are human artifacts which are used to define the physical
>>world in which we live. Reality just is. There are no laws other than
>>what we prescribe to make sense out of what we perceive and experience.
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>>Bob Kolker
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> So, there are no rules that govern the universe, except in our minds?
> Before people, the universe wasn't consistently behaving according to
> rules that govern the interactions between entities in it? Reality just
> "was" until we started applying math to it? Pretty magical....and
> ridiculous. Why do mathematicians want to own math? It's like saying
> Columbus invented America.
LOL. I love that last sentence. I'll have to remember that.
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range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
-- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"
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