Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by Phenomenit on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:17AM
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I've always figured it's our visions ability to perceive wholes, one of something. A clear conceptual border between two entities.
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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by hliyan on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:29AM
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Yes, but it's possible to perceive distict objects without vision, except the separation is in time, rather than space. Or, depends on the number of sense organs available (e.g. a blind person can sense two different objects simultaneously by holding one in each hand).
Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by Phenomenit on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:58PM
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Agreed, I wonder if the same amount of abstract concept would be possible though, can you feel a graph? could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?
Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by pm321 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:29AM
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"could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?"
Can you get data on this from a Monte Carlo method of study on match play between sighted and blind players playing go and chess at distance and blind which requires a mental model of the board state and translations?