>>11910066The entire field of mathematics is nothing more than glorified accounting based on the premise that it is possible to isolate objects from time and space and assign an abstract value to them.
It works. Sort of. It gets bridges built and moon flights done. But it remains full of inconsistencies which should serve as a red flag that its most basic premises are flawed.
The idea that we can count things as we do is so ingrained we dont even question it. Counting is one of the first things we learn and vanishingly few people questions the the integrity of the mathematical narrative. We then construct an entire logic system based on such a fundamental system. And we continue to use it because it works so well.
So did Newtonian physics. In fact so did the Heliocentric theory for a long time. So did creationism for even a longer time. To argue against those ideas at their time would have had you ridiculed, labeled eccentric, perhaps insane, even persecuted in the latter example. Future times will label us primitive just as we today regard those who lived centuries ago. What we regard as rational, logical and evidence based today may not be regarded as such centuries from now. To think of mathematics today as unassailable is as arrogant as those subscribing to the flat earth idea.
I suspect we have have got something fundamentally wrong in our world view. Something so stunningly conceptually basic yet we as Human for some reason cant not see it yet. When we do it will dramatically revolutionize not just mathematics but all of science.
What would a new maths look like? I have no idea. It keeps me awake at night trying to think of a new approach.
Thank you for reading my blog. In before some cretin calls me Schizo. Too late.
