I think numbers are wonderful and cool abstract thingies. We grow up being taught them (in my case Arabic numerals in base 10) and they become such part of our being that we start to think that we know what “5” is. Then I was introduced to Roman Numerals. Didn’t like those much. That one taught me that 4 is more related to 5 than it is 3. Then some of us learn a base 2 number system or base 16 number system and for a brief moment we question whether we actually knew what “5” was. And then we may learn about Peano and the successor(s…) of zero. Did we really know what “5” was then? What is five-ness really? Perhaps fiveness is a set within a set within a set…
Every interaction our human minds have with fiveness is with a representation or encoding of 5. With each new representation, I’ve experienced fiveness slightly differently.
But I like computers and math. For me, the best to experience oneness with the fiveness is through computation with Lambda Calculus and Church Numerals. Very fond of that encoding.
Every interaction our human minds have with fiveness is with a representation or encoding of 5. With each new representation, I’ve experienced fiveness slightly differently.
But I like computers and math. For me, the best to experience oneness with the fiveness is through computation with Lambda Calculus and Church Numerals. Very fond of that encoding.