RE: Satuday meanderings...Postmodernist math, and why it makes sense to idiots.
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I know math is wrong. (the assumption that you can always add 1 to a number makes math broken.
ok - lets test the 1+1 (+1,+1,...)...
You add one hive into my account - and if i DOES NOT increase by one, I'll give you two back.
Lets repeat it 10,000 times and come to a conclusion after that, based on the findings....???lol
So, i do not believe in modern materialistic science....
You believe in the science enough to utilize it. You have faith in it....the computer interface/phone.
Science is not fixed it evolves. thats called scientific process.
because i believe in the aether and do not believe in black holes.
I'm more of proponent of the 'electric unicers theory myself' (what little I know).
Don't 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' - you'll become a postmodern thinker! lolol
The assumption that you can always add 1 to a number is the root of the problem.
But the problem is more clearly stated by infinity not being handled correctly.
Under the rules of math 1 = -1
It has been shown and proven.
Adding all the numbers together = 1/12
again, shown and proven.
The other half of the problem is that we leave the world of real math and enter the world of imaginary math.
Like your "i give you one" scenario.
It only works within the conditions of numbers being between 0 and max_database_integer or total_hive
And between 0 and current_account_balance.
As long as we stay within those bounds, your analogy holds, when we break any one of those bounds, the results get strange real quick.
Similarly 1 apple + 3 apples = 4 apples.
As long as there are at least 4 apples.
If, there is only 3 apples
1 apple + 3 apples = undefined.
I do not want to be lumped in with postmodern thinkers.
However, my conclusions are the same...
-1 is a concpet.
1 is an actual number.
...abstact thinking (which is to encouraged) is not the same as the real world.
...for all intents and puroses 99.999999% of math is applied, logically, in the real world (until this last decade or two).
View accordingly.