Re: Universal prior - Go FORTH and Run Backward

From: David Lloyd-Jones <icomm5.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:28:28 -0500

Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden> writes:
>
> I have still a question for Russell, what is the meaning of
> giving a "physical existence" to a mathematical structure ? This is
> not at all a clear statement for me.
>

There is a tendency for sciences to speak in the metaphors of the age in
which they arise. Thus economics is written in the language of steam
engines: pressures, velocities, inflation, volumes.

In a few years time I think people will look back and laugh at this period
when the cosmos was talked about in the language of desktop computing.

                                                     -dlj.
Received on Fri Nov 12 1999 - 07:09:15 PST