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I have pondered if a hypothetical race of liquid or gaseous aliens living in a fluid world invented maths that were not rooted in counting numbers, what would t
by yen223 2y ago
I have pondered if a hypothetical race of liquid or gaseous aliens living in a fluid world invented maths that were not rooted in counting numbers, what would that look like.
- tim333 2y agoOr less hypothetically with AIs with no knowledge of physical space, I wonder how they'd do with deducing mathematics. There are non counting approaches to mathematics such as set theory or geometry.
- Razengan 2y agoOr consider a radially symmetric organism with sensory organs all around it, so it has no concept (need) for "left" and "right", or "forward" and "back" etc. How would they define angles, coordinates etcetera?