From @Meaningness - “Reasonableness works directly with reality, whereas rationality works with formalisms. Rationalism assumes that a formalism somehow reflects reality, and glosses over questions about how that works.” https://meaningness.com/eggplant/reasonableness …
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I argue (fictionally) in my novel Reality that photons hitting the retina and triggering neurons firing and chemical changes in the brain can *not* account for why a glimpse of something can make a man feel optimistic. That requires meaning, which physics deliberately avoids./1
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I’m aware that this is not an original argument.
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> through a causal chain result in your sticking a fork in it. What role do mathematical abstractions play in that?
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