1/3, which is a local number.
Are you actually unable or unwilling to perform the division? Or do you just not like the result you get when you do?
1/3, which is a local number.
While I agree that Doron has much in common with the attitudes of Intuitionistc schools of Mathematics,
Unlike them he does assert the existance of more than just a potential infinity.
In his approach Actual Infinity is Non-Locality, Potential Infinity is of Locality.
In my opinion, what's crucial with Doron is the Non-Local/Local Interaction (or "linkage" as it's currently called.)
What he's been asserting about 1/3 not equalling .3333333333...........
in Organic Mathematics follows from his Redundancy/Uncertainty structure of Organic Numbers as seen, but not necessarily directly perceived in his Direct Perception .pdf.
Chicken or egg? I'm not certain.
But as it stands now, everything rests on the Non-Local/Local framwork.
The more I think about this epic thread, Doron's posting history elsewhere, and his geocities library, the more I am convinced it all distills down to one simple issue: The basic concept of infinity. Doron does not understand it; he continually fights with it.
Part of the battle comes from him treating things as active processes. 0.999... cannot simply exist as a complete entity; it must be an on-going sequence of events, adding more 9's to the end, never to be finished. As such, it can never quite reach its destination, unity.
The process view creates the conflict, and from there he invents things or adapts things he misunderstands to resolve the conflict. 0.999... isn't 1, so there must be some difference between the two. Let's call it 0.000...1. Doron has reinvented infinitesimals. Infinitesimals fail for lack of numerical consistency, but Doron covers by declaring his infinitesimal to not be a number.
The whole local/non-local aspect of things is part of this invention to cover inconsistency. It sounds sciency, and look how easy it is to just declare 0.999... to be a non-local number and thus free it from the constraints imposed by "standard mathematics."
If I am correct in this, it would explain the difficulty people like Apathia have had trying to explore the philosophic underpinnings of some of the topics Doron has raised. Doron doesn't have any philosophic underpinnings for his local/non-local views; they are just things he has backed into to cover his misunderstanding of infinity.
Apathia, I have no single problem with his OM paradigm if he would not attribute these 'signs of grandeur' to it.
that ⅓ ≈ 0.33 (recurrent) is nothing new and it is being dealt with in mathematics.
That is where the ≈ symbol comes from.
His 'linkage' is a simply a more cumbersome and verbal way (simply substituting symbols for words does not make it any less verbal) to do with OM what math has been doing for ages.
What he does is simply putting on extra constraints so it matches perception.
But as you should be aware, perception is always but a subset of the full faculties of the mind.
Proof: imagination is not a perception. It can be forced to make it look like it is, but it is not.
For example: I could image infinity as a Möbius ring, with numbers never overwriting each other but just matching my local viewpoint and travelling distance from my starting point. That way I also have a 'local/non-local' linkage and potential and actual infinity.
This way, I could talk about infinity sizes in 'cycles on the ring'.
But it is only imagination and of little use, because it *needs* that extra constraint of the Möbius ring.
Now, it was you who mentioned TM, right? If you check Vedic Mathematics, then you will find that they use Sutra's to give you the 'direct perception' of an algorithm that works very fast for doing certain calculations.
But the big(!) difference with Doron is that they have addenda that use real rigorous proofs in mathematics to explain why the Sutra's hold true for any case.
But not only Vedic 'Math' is different, Abacus Math as well: http://www.streetdirectory.com/trav...ences_between_abacus_math_and_vedic_math.html
There are lots of different ways to do things.
And if Doron just sees that his way of doing things is more like Vedic Math, i.e. doing nothing new with mathematics, but finding, for some, easier to work with methods, then he could finally try to finalise it.
OM will simply not be the unification of Discreet and Continuous Maths.
It has no new insights in math!
He merely insists on calling existing answers by different names. Like using the 'greater than' symbol for saying the same as lim(x).
Or stating that the transmutation of a rational number into a real number will not yield the exact result.
Or stating that a point has less than 1 dimension.
Or saying 'no amount of 0-dim can fill up a 1-dim', meaning infinity.
So while I am happy for you that you can use his ways of talking for your own mental imagery, it is nothing new for people really using math.
I disagree with your statement that "imagination is not a perception".
A percept can also be a concept which is perceived.
Memory being a good example.
When you recall something you previously perceived you are not perceiving what you actually perceived then (the exact same electric stimulation's in the brain), but the imaginative re-construction of what you perceived i.e. a concept. That does not mean it is no less real otherwise we would need to always look at something in order to "truly" remember it.
Hmmm, this suggests you subscribe to the (old) school of 'memory is a rolodex' system.
But in fact, memory is more complicated than that.
I would like to direct you to the excellent site of Mr. Wiseman: www.quirkology.com where you can test yourself and 'perceive' that your perception, memory recollection and imagination are but a small subset of what your brain really does.
I have made Doron do one of these experiments, the results speak for themselves.
Even when taken as the, now outdated, notion that perception is our input-system, it can, by mere definition of it being not the whole, but a part through which we perceive, never substitute for the knowledge that we construct by reasoning.
There is a succinct difference between wisdom (problem solving by remodelling experience), intelligence (problem solving by inference of abstract building blocks and their properties) and 'being clever' (my language leaves me in the lurch again. Solving problems by 'reverse engineering' the properties and relinking them again).
It is easy for people to fall into the trap that 'perception is everything' because it is the thing that is most obvious to us.
Hence Doron's insistence on 'atomicity'.
But since science has progressed a lot since the popsci documentary's were made, it has become clear that perception is a muddled, reconstructed and duct-taped performance at best.
The biggest problem discussing perception with others is that with the right redefinition I can even make 'a trip to the mall, buying a pack of condoms, going home and getting laid' fall under the one word 'perception'.
Perception is neither math nor is it physics.
Perception is a conglomerate of different processes that mean different things to different entities (species, machines, people).
So unless you would start out with a clear definition of what perception means in this case, it is all but a bunch of vague woo.
To help matters along:
My definition of perception is but the entry of signals from nerve endings to the brain. When that signal is modelled into an object (without the connotations, history and relations) the perception ends. Processing begins.
(this is an abridged version)
Thanks for the link I will explore.
I am not sure what you mean by perception not being math or science since you come to your definition of perception by means of math and science.
Or are you saying (using your definition of perception) perception cannot be perceived only reasoned.
The question then is, is reasoning primary and independent of perception which it defines in retrospect? or are we going in circles if we use your definition of perception.
Well, I apologize for being not clear:
'Perceiving is not reasoning' and 'Perception is not math or science' but 'Math or science can explain perception' is more like:
'All men are goind to die. Socrates is a man. Socrates is going to die.' does not mean 'All men are Socrates'.
I am saying that perception in my definition ends at the moment the nerve-endings and their respective counterpart in the brain have given the brain a signal that is different from the normal noise of signals so that the brain can work with it.
And yes, perception *is* defined in retrospect. There are numerous experiments that can prove this to you (you will find a couple of those on Mr. Wisemans site).
The simplest one is that you 'perceive' continuous reality even though the frequency of your vision processing is around 25 Hertz (I believe, might be wrong here).
A cool trick to make you realise this is the following: Find a clock with a second hand on it. Stare at something that is not the clock, and do not have the clock in your field of vision.
Then suddenly turn to the clock and watch the second hand. You will notice that the first second takes longer than all the following seconds.
But I suspect that people like Doron want to define 'percept' as 'it is immediately obvious'.
And I can not accept that.
So while I am happy for you that you can use his ways of talking for your own mental imagery, it is nothing new for people really using math.
The Part of the battle comes from him treating things as active processes. 0.999... cannot simply exist as a complete entity
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The Man said:Structure is not a “Buiding-block” it is what you have after you put two or more building-blocks or parts together.
You are happy for me too early in the game.
I can understand what the Organic Numbres are supposed to represent, but I don't yet see how they become an ethical utiliity.
jsfisher said:The whole local/non-local aspect of things is part of this invention to cover inconsistency. It sounds sciency, and look how easy it is to just declare 0.999... to be a non-local number and thus free it from the constraints imposed by "standard mathematics."
There is no processes here. 0.999...[base 10] is exactly a non-local number.
The problem is in the mind of any one that can't get non-locality as a fundametal building-block in addition to Locality.
If "consistency" means that no change is possible at the core of the mathematical science, and any mathematical activity must be done upon the agreed core, then you are right jsfisher.
realpaladin said:Or can Doron tell me what the smallest distance is between two 0-dim elements?
I say it is lim(0).
The smallest distance between two 0-dim elements > 0-dim element.
The smallest distance between two 0-dim elements = 1-dim element.
As you see, this is a structural difference that stands and the basis of the concept of Distance.
In other words, Structure is the Building-block of Distance, Division, Scale or any other possible change.
You need two tomato's, I need one tomatoe...
It is just something you made up. And it is something you are unable to define or describe. It is an imaginary invention on your part, and totally unnecessary.
Mathematics functions fine without it. With it, it falls into contradiction and inconsistency, and it does that with no actual application to demonstrate any advantage.
It doesn't, but I still am.