Podcast 531 – “The Prisim Lecture”
Psychedelic Salon
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The Disadvantages of Mathematics
Russell and White's Principia Mathematica had all sorts of flaws, he says. Then Brouwer came along and said actually mathematics reduces to intuition. So now we've got four theories about what mathematics reduces to logic, to intuition, to formalismwhat a set theory - mathematicians can't agree among themselves on it. Even while the physicists plug along hopefully even though they don't know what mathematics is still think we can find out something about reality. This is if anybody doubts this look into the voices of time by J.T. Tisdall.
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