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> having a body You do not need sensorial feedback to do math. And you do not need full sensors to have feeback - one well organized channel can suffice for so

• astrange 2y ago
  You need sensor feedback to learn new math and talk to other mathematicians.
  • mdp2021 2y ago
    To learn new math, a professional mathematician foremostly just thinks further (it's its job); to discuss with other entities (and acquire new material), textual input and outputs suffice.
    • astrange 2y ago
      Hmm, the ones I know do a fair amount of multimodal discussion. (Shapes for instance.)
      • mdp2021 2y ago
        Which you can still acquire as compact data (like SVG) Which to machines is direct information, as opposed to noisy data requiring complex processing to extract the relevant content.