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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (24297)	7/2/2006 2:17:35 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

I learned to count by visualizing on, two, three objects, etc. I also learned to count using nouns but that is another story. I think it would be natural for dolphins to learn to count by hearing and for dogs to learn to count by smelling one, two, three, etc. But whereas I can see three objects and decide to give that a symbol such as three or wagon...the dog might smell three objects and need to give it an odor symbol. I'm not sure how this would work but then I don't pee all over my back yard either. A color fixated creature could go red, orange, yellow, green, etc. and create a mathematical language. Then he could ask if the hues between red and orange were infinite or if they were finite...

To: Solon who wrote (24297)	7/2/2006 3:28:54 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

One seed is called ONE. Two seeds are called TWO. I find it fascinaing that any given arbitrary number doesn't really exist until it is used. This is very similar to the way elementary quantum particles don't exist until they are involved in a cause-effect relationship. Math was thought to be the model of the creation, and now it seems it does model reality. TP

To: Solon who wrote (24297)	7/2/2006 4:35:43 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one".> Hey all the Eastern mystics say that! :) < Or perhaps if our eyes could clearly discern thousands of hues and tints of color...> Right!! Or aura's and energy fields!! You've got it now. We evolved to survive and eat, so there's no reason we should be able to see the way things REALLY work, that might be very confusing.... and WHAM we get run over by a T-Rex. :) DAK