[ExI] The "Unreasonable" Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

[The Avantguardian]

--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> To sum up, the answer to Wigner's question concerning
> the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics",
> as in
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html,
> is that mathematics cannot be thought of as in any way
> distinct or separate from the physical universe, but only
> our way of describing the universe's own preexisting
> constraints.

So does this mean you renounce Platonia, Lee? ;-)

Stuart LaForge

"See them clamber, these nimble apes!  They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss."- Friedrich Nietzsche