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jt512


Mar 29, 2007, 6:47 PM

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Re: [fracture] Best Boulderer Ever
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fracture wrote:
jt512 wrote:
The universe is inherently quantitative. When elements burn they give off radiation at specific wavelengths. Gravity is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between objects. Light travels at a specific speed c.

None of that is under dispute.

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The entire concept of an "object" is organism-relative.

What a load of philosophical bullshit. Do you deny that the moon exists?

No. And not bullshit; I think this is pretty much an unavoidable consequence of the theory of evolution.

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But regardless, all those divisions actually exist, whether they are useful to any organism, or not.

They exist now. Lots of things exist now that didn't before complex organisms evolved. Consciousness, for example.

Sure, but not the wavelengths of the emissions from the combustion of strontium, the number of planets revolving around the sun, Planck's constant, and the speed of light. Your earlier point was that numbers are inherently metaphors; mine is that they are not. They are inherent to the Universe.

Jay


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