Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!usc!ucsd!hub!silber From: silber@voodoo.ucsb.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: (not to belabalor this topic (math and big bang), but... Message-ID: <2212@hub.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 16:16:26 GMT Sender: news@hub.UUCP Organization: UC, Santa Barbara. Physics Computer Services Lines: 15 -Message-Text-Follows- Joe Keane remarked that: >>The key is that mathematics is not based on any structure in our universe.You >>can talk about mathematical objects completely independent of any physical >>basis. But mathematics IS based upon structure in our universe, the structure which conceives/abstracts/computes it (as well as the external structures whose observation by primordial 'mathematicians' provides the primal experiential base of observations upon which the elaboration of mathematics as a cultural phenomenon is based) (Mathematics as a phenomenological complex) (??) (-: (-: (-: