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Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind

Thing in itself

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Are You a Plaidness About Math?

I'm more of a Aristotelian realist about math. I don't think that you need to posit mathematical objects in an separate realm outside of space and time. You just, you can start with the world, study it, abstract away from it, extend these ideas. And that seems to me the best way to understand math.

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