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Greetings. I consider myself a free thinker as long as free thinking does NOT create static barriers or dogmas to the thinking process itself or the community who practice such openness. I appreciate your essay on NOT denigrating people who live in a religious or wisdom tradition. I grew up entirely SECULAR in middle America in regards to…Read More
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Hi! I love a healthy discussion of a controversial topic! Never take it personal, it’s just debate!
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John posted in the group Common Sense, Philosophy & Science HQ
Hey, it looks like I’m jumping into a void, so I’ll start the fun with this one.
Mathematics: invention or description?
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John posted in the group Common Sense, Philosophy & Science HQ
I find it disheartening that so many people, regardless of religious belief or lack thereof, cannot or will not follow simple trains of reasoning. At this point it isn’t even understanding logic, they seem to disregard cause/effect and observable reality in favor of their positions.
My biggest disappointment is people who cannot understand…Read More
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John, you may want to consider this as a partial reason for why so many people, in essence, had created a reality of their own:
Language Is Key To A Truly Modern World & To AI
IF all words had only one specific meaning it would be much more difficult to deceive people or even to lie. Try to perceive how different the world would be with only…Read More
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Personally I’d call it a bit of both. What a lot of people don’t seem to understand about mathematics is how often it changes. It’s been “under development” for the last several thousand years, and it’s not finished yet.
To be honest I think rather than an “invention” or “description” I’d actually call it a language that we use to discuss…Read More