
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
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Is There a Game of Discovery in the Physical World?
The next prime number will be discovered rather than invented. To invent it would be to invent it perfectly within the constraints of its being, in fact, the next prime number. So it's not wrong to call that pure discovery. More or less like finding neptune when you didn't know it existed. Yes, we have ting a large number of bruts now done by machines. And discoveries also. Sometimes we're still talking about physical systems that can play this game of discovery in this mathematical spacethat we are talking about.
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