Introduction and Overview What is a Number? Is it an idea or a thing? This question has been debated since Greek times, and it still remains unanswered in philosophy and science. This article examines the nature of the problem, and what its likely resolution will look like. It illustrates how […]
Overview / Philosophy
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There is Only Form
Introduction and Overview Since the time of Greek philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates—it has been believed that the present universe is comprised of two things: form and substance. Forms are the ideas that exist even when substances don’t; the world of things combines form and substance, kind of like the form of […]
Biology / Computing / Mathematics / Physics
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Evolution and Mechanism – Are They Compatible?
Introduction and Overview A computer is a canonical example of a machine. Every machine can be described by a mathematical theory, and every mathematical theory can be automated on a computer. Therefore if you could describe something mathematically, you could also automate it in a computer. People often suppose that […]