@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to Ask Lemmy • 3 months agoWhat is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?message-square242arrow-up1171arrow-down13
arrow-up1168arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to Ask Lemmy • 3 months agomessage-square242
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months agoAnd then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•3 months ago1+1=2… but one WHAT!? Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn’t follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜
And then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.
Math is just a language that can be used to model reality.
1+1=2… but one WHAT!?
Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn’t follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜