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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 Finite Number of Information Incoted in Real Numbers?

i'd love for you to just riff on this article that you sent me. He says, basically, real numbers are marvellous tools that should not be abandoned. Or we can accept that there is a finite number of information incoted in real numbers and that there's a kind of fundamental random ness. And i think that you have answered your own question much better than i canso give a very good understanding thi my comment would be to put it in a larger context if you takea fairly large view of how science is developed. I would define sciences as attempting to understand and explain the real world its phenomena.

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