“I’m frightened and I cannot sleep,”
the little child said.
“I fear there might be triangles
underneath my bed.”
“There might be ghosts,” the mother mused.
“I cannot speak to those.
There may be ghouls and goblins
who will nibble on your toes.
There could be long-toothed monsters
with their eyes a gleaming red.
But there’s no such thing as triangles!
They’re only in your head.”
So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality is hard to get your head around | The Spectator
And this from Sabrine…
“I’m frightened and I cannot sleep,”
the little child said.
“I fear there might be triangles
underneath my bed.”
“There might be ghosts,” the mother mused.
“I cannot speak to those.
There may be ghouls and goblins
who will nibble on your toes.
There could be long-toothed monsters
with their eyes a gleaming red.
But there’s no such thing as triangles!
They’re only in your head.”
Good point/idea. The universe isn’t mathematical, the ideas we have about it, are.
Linking to a good description of Platonic Forms – as that is all a triangle really is. Go find, or figure…
So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Interesting idea, and to be honest, hard to disprove.