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I shall quote myself: > I never said anything like "all thought is mathematics", merely "not all mathematics is symbolic thought".
by Smaug123 5y ago
I shall quote myself:
> I never said anything like "all thought is mathematics", merely "not all mathematics is symbolic thought".
- lisper 5y agoWe're going around in circles. If not all mathematics is symbolic thought, then, unless you're a dualist, there is nothing that can be meaningfully distinguished as "not mathematics" (because Turing completeness) and the whole concept of mathematics becomes vacuous and useless.
- Smaug123 5y agoWell, you're extrapolating to the claim that since humans can be emulated by machines, which are in the domain of mathematics, every aspect of human thought is mathematics. I deny this extrapolation. Merely writing something down does not make it literature; merely encoding something into a Turing machine does not make it mathematics.