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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Randomness is a human concept (was Re: Time is a human concept)
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 18:07:49 GMT
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In article <3bdipp$or1@news.acns.nwu.edu>,
John DeLaughter <jed@nam.earth.nwu.edu> wrote:
> pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>>In article <3b87dp$g0c@cascade.pnw.net>, Don Edwards <warrl@pnw.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>"No.  Some ideas like mathematics may be universal and discoverable by any
>>>"intelligence.  Universal ideas do not imply anuniversal agent that created
>>>"them nor are an agent themselves.  Didn't Plato say this?
>>>
>>Mathematical ideas may or may not be universal in the above sense. They may
>>very well be specific to the structure of our brains. Plato might have been 
>>wrong. After all it was his brain which told him so. His brain might have had
>>a delusion of grandeur :-).
>
>How about the gosh numbers?  Those are independent of brain structure,
>being rooted in what passes for reality around here. (8->)  Of course,
>we might have some problems deciphering the units...
>
Sorry for my ignorance, but what are "gosh numbers"?

>John DeLaughter

Andrzej
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