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You can certainly write "I know that there is something beyond mathematical rules that exists." That doesn't make it true.
by PopePompus 2y ago
You can certainly write "I know that there is something beyond mathematical rules that exists." That doesn't make it true.
- a_cardboard_box 2y agoIf there are only mathematical rules, then there isn't something that it's like to be me. I know that is false by experiencing the thing that it's like to be me. Perhaps there isn't anything that it's like to be you, in which case I have no hope of convincing you, because the underlying concept behind my words is ineffable.
- bawolff 2y agoI think the counter-argument would go - there are all sorts of unintuitive mathematical rules. What if it just seems like there is something ineffable about experiencing life but its just an illusion? Mind you, i dont think either side of the debate has much in way of evidence, so it ends up coming down to just what feels "right" which is pretty unsatisfactory.
- mistermann 2y agoTrue, but True is a subclass of Real, and what is Real drives causality, and is only partially constrained by Truth.