Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoWhat is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down11
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareOpenStars@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·14 hours agoAnd then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·13 hours agoMath is just a language that can be used to model reality.
minus-squareOpenStars@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours ago1+1=2… but one WHAT!? Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn’t follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜
And then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.
Math is just a language that can be used to model reality.
1+1=2… but one WHAT!?
Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn’t follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜