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Some people have this view, but I don't get why.
by ogogmad 11mo ago
Some people have this view, but I don't get why.
- a_tartaruga 11mo agoMe neither. David Deutsch had some interesting thoughts on why finitists are wrong in TBOI but I never fully understood it.
- FilosofumRex 11mo agoNeither does David Deutsch himself, he stopped making sense sometime in the late 80's
- naasking 11mo agoMath is a tool for structured reasoning. We often want to reason about things that physically exist. Why should we use a tool that assumes the existence of something that literally cannot physically exist? That introduces the danger that of admitting all sorts of unphysical possibilities into our theories. I think Baez's paper, Struggles with the Continuum, shows a lot of past difficulties we've had that resulted from this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421