Counting, the most basic rational procedure, depends on non-rational skills. Simple illustration of a major theme of my meta-rationality book.
(How would you count the pebbles in this bucket?)https://meaningness.com/eggplant/pebbles …
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Replying to @Meaningness
It appears that it isn't impossible to prove the Peano axioms consistent...if your definition of 'prove' is loose enough. Pebbles all the way down, man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Consistency …
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yup. It’s actually surprising how much of math is “essentially contested”, i.e. people disagree and there’s no way of resolving the disagreement rationally. There was a great post recently about natural-seeming questions that are independent of ZF and not obviously = AC or CH.
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Oh, this is nice. This is the sort of thing spent most of my time on when I was 20. Result is from 20 years after that though.pic.twitter.com/yly82jWOo7
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