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Comment by protonfish

This is fascinating, but only if you hold faith in inherent truth of mathematical symbolism. Unfortunately, this seems to be the standard dogma of mathematicians, though I haven't seen significant evidence necessary to warrant this belief.

If you understand mathematics and logic as merely a formalized language of symbols then you can judge those systems on certain qualities (complexity, clarity, expressiveness, etc.) but not "truth." The creation of a logical expression analogous to a natural phenomenon should instead use the methods of science hypotheses and testing.

parent protonfish 8 years ago

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