LOL He's a working dog. He points, retrieves, and can track so long as I keep his attention on it. He's a Golden Retriever, he sorta, theoretically, maybe earns his keep.
Sam but I call him Stupid. He's not smart, but lovable and well trained. He will train his replacement this coming spring.
Basically, this sums up why I call him stupid...
He will chase a ball until you're tired. He can fit two tennis balls in his mouth, but he can't fit three. So, when I'm done working on his retrieving, I'll throw three balls. He will then spend hours trying to figure out how to put all three in his mouth at the same time.
I have a friend (just one) and his family adopted a little dog on holiday and called him "wee stupidy".
On some level it makes me feel guilty but on another, it amuses me.
He'd just want me to give him attention. He's lovable but not bright. He goes hiking with other people, fishing trips with other people, etc... He's quite a character. I've come home and found notes saying they took my dog for a ride. He's gone on multiple overnight trips without me.
Nope. Mathematics is a language. You can describe anything with math, just as you can with English. The language of mathematics is an expressive language and nothing more. It's contrived in areas, arbitrary in other areas, and straight up wrong in some areas.
Well you know, it was I who shared The Euler quote about an equation being beautiful if it is true.
I think of Plato's world of form being the divine blueprint towards which, for example, the flower strives towards... Of course, elements upon the flower - might hinder it's mathematical symmetry of design but the blueprint, from which it is formed, never alters. That is where I see the divinity and I like to visualise it, like ice crystals forming beautifully and therefore, being resonant with the creator.
By the way, I don't believe in divine anything. There's no evidence to support such and divinity isn't falsifiable. Science actually has no opinion on deities. It doesn't answer that question, it can not answer that question.
Well being that Science is Scientia (knowledge) I would beg to differ.
The power we reap with knowledge, is wisdom and to me, rather divine. Is philosophy, not after all... The love or worship of wisdom philo- sophia?
So we seek to attain "The God Head" through learnedness.
You can't falsify an omnipotent deity. Without falsifiability, it's not science. We can't prove an all powerful deity doesn't exist, we can't prove that something exists beyond our ability to observe and measure. Science has no opinion on the subject of deities. If you have a question about deities, ask your priest. If you have a question about mathematics, I can probably answer that.
"From some of Planck's utterances it would seem that he sees no contradiction between religion and science, indeed that he believes the two are perfectly compatible."
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old_grumpy_fucker ago
They'd find it in my trunk, too. It's in many brands of fertilizer.
BeautyChat ago
Say, Grumpy...
You don't happen to own a tractor do you?
TheBuddha ago
I do! I love my tractor.
TheBuddha ago
I'm not even kidding. I love my tractor, almost as much as I love my dog. I get more work out of the tractor, however,
HotelCalifornia ago
So you are a modernist trying to compensate by owning a traditional pet?
I see.
TheBuddha ago
LOL He's a working dog. He points, retrieves, and can track so long as I keep his attention on it. He's a Golden Retriever, he sorta, theoretically, maybe earns his keep.
HotelCalifornia ago
Hehe. That's cool, what is your dog called?
TheBuddha ago
Sam but I call him Stupid. He's not smart, but lovable and well trained. He will train his replacement this coming spring.
Basically, this sums up why I call him stupid...
He will chase a ball until you're tired. He can fit two tennis balls in his mouth, but he can't fit three. So, when I'm done working on his retrieving, I'll throw three balls. He will then spend hours trying to figure out how to put all three in his mouth at the same time.
HotelCalifornia ago
God bless him.
I have a friend (just one) and his family adopted a little dog on holiday and called him "wee stupidy". On some level it makes me feel guilty but on another, it amuses me.
TheBuddha ago
Stupid doesn't mind that I call him that. He responds to anything. He is not a bright dog, no.
HotelCalifornia ago
What do you think would happen if you started calling him intellect?
TheBuddha ago
He'd just want me to give him attention. He's lovable but not bright. He goes hiking with other people, fishing trips with other people, etc... He's quite a character. I've come home and found notes saying they took my dog for a ride. He's gone on multiple overnight trips without me.
HotelCalifornia ago
Slightly perturbed, I waited ten minutes for my coffee and the cooker isn't turned on.
TheBuddha ago
Yeah, you gotta hit the button. I am guilty of that just recently.
HotelCalifornia ago
I believe it was Bertrand Russell who called it The Philosopher's curse... For example, looking for glasses, while you are wearing them.
TheBuddha ago
Huh... You're familiar with Russell? LOL I have the v/mathemagicians sub.
HotelCalifornia ago
Well yes, of course. I happen to be a philosopher, not an aeronaut. Don't you know Russell's linguistic proposition about Unicorns?
TheBuddha ago
LOL I am familiar with most of his work. I'm a "doctor of philosophy" which is, more technically meaning, I have a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics.
HotelCalifornia ago
Do you see divinity in mathematics?
TheBuddha ago
Nope. Mathematics is a language. You can describe anything with math, just as you can with English. The language of mathematics is an expressive language and nothing more. It's contrived in areas, arbitrary in other areas, and straight up wrong in some areas.
HotelCalifornia ago
Also, when you write code, does the underlying tablet not have a language unto itself?
TheBuddha ago
Sure, it's binary.
HotelCalifornia ago
Well you know, it was I who shared The Euler quote about an equation being beautiful if it is true. I think of Plato's world of form being the divine blueprint towards which, for example, the flower strives towards... Of course, elements upon the flower - might hinder it's mathematical symmetry of design but the blueprint, from which it is formed, never alters. That is where I see the divinity and I like to visualise it, like ice crystals forming beautifully and therefore, being resonant with the creator.
TheBuddha ago
LOL How many usernames do you have?
HotelCalifornia ago
Hundreds.
TheBuddha ago
LOL I have one.
By the way, I don't believe in divine anything. There's no evidence to support such and divinity isn't falsifiable. Science actually has no opinion on deities. It doesn't answer that question, it can not answer that question.
HotelCalifornia ago
Well being that Science is Scientia (knowledge) I would beg to differ. The power we reap with knowledge, is wisdom and to me, rather divine. Is philosophy, not after all... The love or worship of wisdom philo- sophia? So we seek to attain "The God Head" through learnedness.
TheBuddha ago
You can't falsify an omnipotent deity. Without falsifiability, it's not science. We can't prove an all powerful deity doesn't exist, we can't prove that something exists beyond our ability to observe and measure. Science has no opinion on the subject of deities. If you have a question about deities, ask your priest. If you have a question about mathematics, I can probably answer that.
HotelCalifornia ago
Where does mathematics begin?
TheBuddha ago
When you describe the manipulation of countable items.
HotelCalifornia ago
So what is the singularity from which mathematics arises?
TheBuddha ago
There is none. Is there a singularity for French, Swahili, English, Latin, or Greek?
Mathematics is a language that follows the philosophy of mathematics, but isn't restricted by such. It's just a language.
HotelCalifornia ago
So you consider the dream world to be devoid of mathematical form?
TheBuddha ago
Dreams have no world. They are electrochemical responses, and nothing more.
HotelCalifornia ago
So is the wakened world, no?
"From some of Planck's utterances it would seem that he sees no contradiction between religion and science, indeed that he believes the two are perfectly compatible."
TheBuddha ago
No, the awakened world is certain enough to have confidence. Logito ergo sum.
HotelCalifornia ago
Is it fair to assume that a fly - exists in a time quite different to our own?
"if you look at flies, they can perceive light flickering up to four times faster than we can. You can imagine a fly literally seeing everything in slow motion." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-live-in-a-slow-motion-world/
Will extend this thought.
TheBuddha ago
Time is relative.