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Personal Journey From Mysticism To Caution
- The host recounts relinquishing supernatural beliefs after adopting scientific thinking.
- He warns that rejecting the supernatural can misfire into denying all non-physical realities.
Abstractions Have Real Effects
- Abstractions like numbers and laws of physics are non-physical but real because they affect the world.
- Rejecting all non-physical explanations misconstrues the role of abstract realities.
Proof Is A Physical Process
- The mathematician's misconception denies that proof is physical by treating reasoning as non-physical.
- But mathematical reasoning is implemented by brains, which are physical systems obeying physics.