
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
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I Agree With the First Part of the Argument, and Disagree With the Second Part.
I agree that it's natural that there will be things in the brain that are very similar to what's happening in the world, precisely because the brain as evolved to have a good world model. But i disagree that this fully answers the whole question, because t the claim that the he made was that brain processes of certain kinds is effected what mathematics is. That's something that most, most mathematicians i know, would violently disagree with, that math had something to do with brain processes at all. They think of math rather as structures, which have nothing to do with a brain lustest pull the brakes. And yess thei processes in the world and their process in the world that that
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