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> I think we humans simply find following a series of steps easier than reasoning in an abstract mathematical sense. It is not at all obvious that this is trul
by epgui 3y ago
> I think we humans simply find following a series of steps easier than reasoning in an abstract mathematical sense.
It is not at all obvious that this is truly the case. If it was the case, why didn't humans intuitively develop mathematics from a computational foundation? It took centuries before we made the leap from mathematical abstractions to Turing machines, and the two are (in some great general sense) isomorphic.
- temporarely 3y ago"I think we humans simply find following a series of steps easier than reasoning in an abstract mathematical sense" + to perform tasks. So, you are right regarding the mindset of human philosophers, but that is not the sort of problems OP's students were tasked with solving.
- epgui 3y agoI wasn't thinking about philosophers in particular, but rather about mathematicians and scientists.