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What does the mean, though? Mathematics as we understand it is an abstraction. If the universe is fundamentally abstract, what breathes fire into the models? Co
by goatlover 6y ago
What does the mean, though? Mathematics as we understand it is an abstraction. If the universe is fundamentally abstract, what breathes fire into the models? Consciousness?
- wcoenen 6y agoModal realism. A mathematical structure is "real" to its conscious inhabitants (if any), and merely an abstraction from the perspective of those who are not, i.e. the inhabitants of other mathematical structures.