Thursday, January 10, 2008

Math is Everything

The building blocks of how things work and operate; the basics, each building on the last Creating something large from something smaller, such as the nuclei within us. Math is never subjective, only objective; there is only one right answer-there isn’t a compromise. Much how life should be, straightforward and black and white? Would life be worth living if it were simple, computable, all the components right in front of us? Love would be about statistics and metrics, no feelings or emotions. Personalities would be fractionalized to the minutest part (.000020). Mistakes (and more importantly, learning from mistakes) would be non-existent. If HUMAN life was built on math we would be completely functional, in that each second of our waking day would have purpose and meaning. Meaning that something or some construct would be getting achieved, or a part of a goal. There would be no more slack time, math is too precise, it would not let it happen. It simply could not occur. The outcome would not let it occur. In all of its complexities and infinitesimal infrastructures, math is simple. Either right or wrong. Yes or no. Will math translate to reality? Hard to say, in fact impossible to say. If ever I am placed in the position of god, deity, shaman, etc… I may dabble a bit and see what shakes out. Going to the other extreme, what if there weren’t any math (or structures or derivatives). Hard to image? Perhaps not. Think of early Homo Sapiens (i.e. Homo Erectus) and their culture and lifestyle. Somewhat bleak, when the daily grind mostly comprised of just surviving the day.

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