Subjective Mathematics
Monday, February 18th, 2008Roger:
…That subjectivity applied to the modern physics bothers me a lot. It is not because I cannot accept the idea of our mind and consciousness are part of the system. No, not at all. I can feel my consciousness so it is part of the real world for me. At least it is real enough for me to accept that it could interact somehow with the physical world around. What bothers me is that there is no math to work with that. In a sense, the science ended at that very moment when you allow any free will to act.
Jonathan:
What would you expect? Objectivity is the basis of science.
Roger:
Yes, but I have been looking for any case when subjectivity and mathematics intersect. I hoped that if I found such an example then may be we can begin to study that subjectivity in a normal scientific way. And guess what? It looks like I found something of that sort! Yesterday I was helping my daughter to do her math homework and there was some of those ‘continue the sequence’ problems. Some short sequence of numbers is given and you have to find out what the next number should be.
