"What we’ve come to imagine as “mental,”" said William James, born OTD in 1842, are really just movements of our bodies. "Consciousness connotes a kind of external relation, and does not denote a special stuff or way of being."
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This made my day :-)
Happy to hear it.. I’m curious as to what you think of @skdh’s conclusions from Lost In Math, and your general stance on the ontology of mathematics.. There is a certain lure for non maths platonists, however I’m not sure that my conclusions exactly align with hers
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You've really got me thinking with this question! I tend to see math as fundamentally embodied, so no matter how abstract, it's rooted in the history of our physical, bodily interactions with the world. That said, there's clearly a mathematical structure governing those (1/n)
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interactions. So what is a priori? I'm speculating here, but John Wheeler liked to say that all mathematics can be reduced to the tautology 0=0. I think I'm willing to be a Platonist about 0=0! Everything else we'd then draw out of that through physical engagement with the world.
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@AmandaGefter and myself discussing@skdh ‘s book in a recent episode (#18?) of@booklabpodcast. :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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