From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 08:47:35 BST
Case,
To labour the point.
When you say
"Mathematics provides the most precise description of nature ..."
I say I still doubt it. It's only "precise" as you put it, to another
mathematician in a closed axiomatic mathematical context. To a natural
person in the "real" world - we have just another chocolate fireguard.
It needs a wealth of "narrative" to back it up.
BTW - I've been re-watching Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man"
recently, (first time since 1974) and last night watched "Knowledge
and Certainty" - It happens to be episode 11, the one which ends with
the most powerful moment in the history of TV, ever, bar none (even
9/11) - (Bruno grapsing a handful of human-ash-mud in memory of Leo
Szillard whilst standing shin deep, in his suit, in the pond at
Auschwitz.)
Anyway behind the emotive power of that message is the basic point of
that episode - there is no mathematical (or any other kind of)
certainty.
Tolerance is the word.
Ian
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