John Freestone
Graduate Poster
Interesting answers, Doron.
Fou: Agreed?
A-fou: Maybe...
Fou: So is Shadmi's new math the language we can use to talk to each other?
A-fou: Oh, yes, probably.
Then the anti-foundationalist does not come to conclusions, presumably. Either than, or perhaps you will relativise this again and say that an a-fou might come to some conclusions, or does or might come to conclusions of a tentative nature, yes? How will you know when he has agreed with the foundationalist on the new logic that allows them to talk to each other?An anti-foundationalist does not use the term "all" during his research. Instead he uses the term "any", which does not force any conclusion on the entire system (as a foundationalist does).
Fou: Agreed?
A-fou: Maybe...
Fou: So is Shadmi's new math the language we can use to talk to each other?
A-fou: Oh, yes, probably.
That is an unreasonable view. B&W-reasoning is the only reasoning there is, AFAIK, and universal reasoning is something you'd like to have discovered, as far as I can tell. If I am wrong, then I am wrong. If I'm right, then I'm right. It cannot be partially-right that there is a universal reasoning of which b&w reasoning is a special case. This is exactly where you go wrong all the time. The problem with B&W reasoning is not that it is a special case, but that it is all we have got, and when you try to relativise true-false, you immediately fail to make sense. It doesn't make much sense in mathematics, where the strangest things seem possible, to have "MAYBE" as the bottom line. And yet you propose that your ideas will help to bridge the gap between mathematics and physics, solving Hilbert's sixth!The problem is that black\white reasoning is not the general case of any reasoning (as can be found by the majority of the current community of mathematicians around the globe) but it is nothing but some particular case of Universal Reasoning, which is not only a black\white reasoning.
No. By using BWR we get a 'researchable framework', without which all knowledge that can be written, spoken or otherwise transmitted between human beings (ignoring supernatural transmission, of course) melts away into your paradoxical postmodern pontification (PPP) of Organic Numbers. Am I half right?By using not only a black\white reasoning, we get a researchable framework, which is less trivial and more interesting than black\white reasoning.
This seems backwards. From noticing objects and counting them, we abstract number theory as a set of ideas. The numbers aren't real. No-one has every held 2 in their hands, you know? But you go further, and abstract this nonsense of Relationship and Element, which you decide must be primary concepts in your formulation. You then mix up these with a-fou and fou, as if there were a natural, obvious isomorphism. I can see what you're getting at: here is one thing, there is another, then we can only have the idea that there are two of them by relating them. It doesn't mean you have discovered a new pair of complementary truths, Relationship and Element, that - I think you said - come before the axioms of the number theory, it seems to me. You derived these properties, these ideas; they are in fact just rather obvious observations from number theory. It would be as arbitrary if you had a thing about triads and described the whole of number theory in terms of three and relationships to threeness. Your little diagrams of how we can think of the number 4 - four units, 1+3, 2+2... - do you really think no-one has noticed this before?"2" doesn't make any sense also if only object is considered, because we need a relation (notated as "__" between object , object (notate as "*"), where each * is totally isolated without __ (and in this case *__* (notated as "2") cannot be found).
So *__* cannot be but the result of Anti-Foundationalism(Relation)\Foundationalism(Element or Object) Interaction.
Yes, but apparently there aren't many mathematicians who find your ideas interesting or useful. I find you interesting, but for reasons that are not really mathematical.There is no such a thing as authorities on fundamental new ideas (including me, in this case). There can be experts that are using and developing already agreed ideas as long as they are interesting and\or useful.
Ah yes, I see. That is an interesting distinction - Tao is much better mapped to the universal everythingness that lies at the bottom of reality, and reality is best described as those mountain thingies, where the peaks are Localities and the valleys are Non-Locality. You should study that one that's somebody's avatar here. It is a sketch of a person's head, with REALITY written on the outside and IMAGINATION on the inside. Maybe you'll discover a synthesis between them, a bit like Lisa Simpson's hairdo.In this diagram Tao = Singularity, whish is not researchable and can be "manifested" only by silence.
