
Nicolas Gisin on intuitionism, indeterminacy, quantum gravity
Thing in itself
The Language of Intuition
Many mathematicians, many of them have this platomistic view. So these numbers are these mathematical objects. They exist in some platomistic world. Outside of space time, I have nothing to do with space and time. And so I think for physicists, intuition is much more natural. It doesn't make extra metaphysical assumptions about the ontology of mathematics. But when I don't want to apply that to physics, I would like to know the language in which tongue enters. And I want a language in which things can evolve. There can be some creativity. I think that exists in nature.
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