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Physics agrees with Plato.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-wor...

Not really sure why the geometry and color gradient of the world needs to be captured in a skeletonized syntax and semantics when our body is evolved to experience them directly.


Right cause we have all gone and measured truth. Not just read possibly biased information off a screen.

Asimov wrote about this in Foundation. If you are not checking yourself it's blind faith in inherently self selecting dishonest people


Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel. Imo similar phenomena to our senses; chasing an endlessly big numbers with no real outcome but growing some number that ostensibly represents an audience but who knows if its real or just numbers on a screen.

Religious belief is same biological phenom, chasing endless propagation of the religion.

Minds go fractal. It's like Snowcrash but they’re not blank, they speak in tongues, circumlocuting gibberish.


>Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel.

But they failed. Gödel's incompleteness theorm is now a widely accepted part of mathematical canon.


You pass butter


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