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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics

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Is There a Bias in Standard Mathematics?

Theories disclose new worlds, but they themselves seem to be the precipitates of our interaction with the world. Our lead author this paper, information theory of individuality, where he shows that the category of the individual is itself something that emerges out of these relational cesses. And yet, there is a bias in standard mathematics. It's not quite insurmountable. All this is just awkward. But i think marshall knew this in the 18 nineties, but there wasn't much he could do about it.

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