Convinced myself that "1" is a fake idea (an abstraction) again
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There are no indivisible, observable objects. Considering only the natural numbers, one is indivisible. And therefore fake.
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That's fake. Useful, succinct, beautiful, but a complete construct. We are real and pizza is real.
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My definition of “reality” is: the thing that sometimes falsifies my hypotheses. Math “kicks back” theopensociety.net/2013/09/realit
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Math is a falsifiable explanatory system. Relationships to our perceptions of reality are nonessential. Math is still true on LSD.
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Math is the ultimate solipsistic system. I'm not interested in my mind (it's terrible), I'm interested in what's out there.
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Ah, I see. I think we found the difference; I’m not instrumental about knowledge.
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related: thanks for the The Beginning of Infinity rec. What a great book
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I’m glad you’ve liked it! It’s been such a brain-worm for me. You might like his other book, The Fabric of Reality.
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IMO all we can know is what we can directly observe. Everything else is a construct, a model. Useful but not real.
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Ah OK, I think observation doesn’t create knowledge—only falsifies it. More on the history of that debate @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductivi
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I don’t think “fake” is meaningful when talking about epistemology. But consciousness is emergent, sure, and dualism is bunk, yes.
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