
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
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What Is the Next Highest Prime Number?
Platonism is the idea that this abstract reality exists in some way. We come to understand these abstract things using our minds, which themselves are abstractions. So it's perfectly ok to say something has an existence without being able to place it in time and space. An infinite number of prime numbers exist but where? Well, certainly not in the physical world. They haven't been instanciated, represented anywhere, anywhere in existence yet. But they must exist, because we can come to discover them. The next highest prime number will hold the record until such time as the one after that is discovered,. then the one afterthat, and so on it goes - a continual discovering of
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