tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376974431190498807.post6589109466538305242..comments2023-09-12T08:48:14.298+01:00Comments on Artificial Philosophy: Trying to explain the weirdest idea in the universe.Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07065848582219331473noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376974431190498807.post-85148589765405673732011-05-22T13:34:48.023+01:002011-05-22T13:34:48.023+01:00Let's take your argument at face value. You wr...Let's take your argument at face value. You wrote: " A quark can be described with just three numbers: the mass, the charge and the spin."<br />So, the numbers are not abstractions at all, just ways people describe mass, charge and spin. Quarks will have these properties even without an observer to count them. I just wouldn't want people to think reality was built on pure abstraction, it isn't. It is.<br /><br />An analogy: Reality is a board game played by forces without an instruction book for rules of play. Mathematics is a human effort to create such a book based on observation of the game in play by those forces.Bulent Akmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00616728023513173197noreply@blogger.com