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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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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But what we “observe” is just a construct in our brains built from stimuli.
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but that stimuli comes from somewhere, an interaction between our bodies and the world.
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But it’s time-shifted. rearranged and reshaped into something we can comphrehend. There is no such thing as red.
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we can go full solipsism if you want but that's not particularly interesting to me. :)
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Solipsism isn’t falsifiable but it has no additional explanatory power over realism but requires an additional axiom. 👎
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