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From: silber@voodoo.ucsb.edu
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Subject: (not to belabalor this topic (math and big bang), but...
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Date: 15 Aug 89 16:16:26 GMT
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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)
  (??) (-: (-: (-: