I found an interesting book due to my brother’s insistance that cognitive science has something to tell us. Apparently numbers are a mechanism in the brain. Go figure eh? nothing like a controversey sparker to begin a blog post.<\/p>\n
I’m being sarcastic because i don’t think thats ever been in question. In fact, I think Kant should get the credit for inspiring this belief, because he claimed that space and time were mechanism of perception and how the human mind worked. If it weren’t for space and time, numbers wouldn’t exist. <\/p>\n
All the same the book is not bad. It takes pot shots at the platonic view of the world, but hey who doesn’t take pot shots at platonic views every once in a while? (I’m defining pot shots as arguments against well known failures of platonic theory, like if the forms exist where are they and how do they interact with the physical world. This has been a flaw for platonic belief for many many years.) I will have more of an opinion when i finish reading it.
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\nThis is interesting…. this is added later..<\/p>\n
I’m still not sure what i think of the book overall but i figured out that one objection i might have might not be covered in this book. He claims that fundamental arithmetic exists in the mind as creations “of” the mind. He says the evidence proves this, but what i was going to object to his argument is that quanity or the fundamental understanding of something-nothing is built within the world. I think he agrees with this. so.. no conflict yet except i’d have to read all his research and understand the human mind and how we percieve, etc. etc. etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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