Re: Opinions on mathematics.

Michael Press wrote:



The only real things are outside you. What is inside you is not real. Therefore you are not real.

My brain is real. The hallucination it generates is not. My brain (as well as yours) can be empirically detected by a third party. So my brain (and yours) is outside of that third party's body which makes it real.

Bob Kolker


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