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To: RightWhale; All

Math itself is amoral having no say in the moral tusslings of men... Math is the cousin of Reason. Two sides to an arguement may use Math to bolster their cause, but what can Math do when one side shouts..."ahh you dishonest curr, you have used the math wrongly, you have omitted certain facts to which the other replies "Nay but those facts are not germaine to this arguement"

Math looks over towards her cousin Reason and both shrug their shoulders...neither arguers have been honest regarding their core beliefs that they have appied A priori when Math was appealed too as well to settle the dispute!

And Reason chuckles to her cousin, "they have not "done the math"...they have "DONE IT TO THE MATH"!
Indeed, sighs Math, "I've a very sore bum indeed!"


55 posted on 06/09/2005 6:44:19 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
Goedel showed that there are statements in math that cannot be proved within math, yet are obviously true and we can see it with our mental powers. This is related to the idea, Goedel's as well, that the human mind cannot be modelled by computing machine. We are not machines, and although math can be handled well with machines, we cannot. Machines do not do intuition.

Physics is all math these days, and so is removed from our humanness and will never be more than mechanical so long as it continues to be all math. Interesting, maybe, that one of the greatest solutions to the cosmology puzzle was plucked from thin air rather than derived, something that annoys many physicists but should not surprise Goedelians.

63 posted on 06/09/2005 8:29:20 AM PDT by RightWhale
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