all human knowledge is created by a small number of people. most of us just regurgitate and use it.
think euclid, galileo, newton, maxwell, etc...
and all human knowledge is mathematical in nature (galileo said this).
what is meant here is that, facts and events in the world we perceive can be compressed into small models which are mathematical in nature and allow a deductive method.
human genius comprises of coming up with these models. This process is described by Peirce (and Kant before him) ie, inventing concepts and relations between them to comprise models of the world we live in.
imagine compressing all observed motion into a few equations of physics. or compress all electromagnetic phenomena into a few equations. and then use this machinery to make things happen.
imagine if we feed a lot of perceived motion data into a giant black-box (which could be a neural net) - and out comes a small model of that data comprising newton's equations (and similarly maxwellian equations).
But, this giant knowledge edifice is built on solid foundations of mathematical reasoning (newton said this).
human genius is to invent a mathematical language to describe imaginary worlds precisely, and then a scientific method to apply that language to model the real world.
emmender2|1 year ago
the average theorem in euclids' elements (written 2000 years back) would have a reasoning chain of at least 10 steps.
all of the mathematical machinery humans build need 100% accuracy in each step
emmender2|1 year ago
think euclid, galileo, newton, maxwell, etc...
and all human knowledge is mathematical in nature (galileo said this).
what is meant here is that, facts and events in the world we perceive can be compressed into small models which are mathematical in nature and allow a deductive method.
human genius comprises of coming up with these models. This process is described by Peirce (and Kant before him) ie, inventing concepts and relations between them to comprise models of the world we live in.
imagine compressing all observed motion into a few equations of physics. or compress all electromagnetic phenomena into a few equations. and then use this machinery to make things happen.
imagine if we feed a lot of perceived motion data into a giant black-box (which could be a neural net) - and out comes a small model of that data comprising newton's equations (and similarly maxwellian equations).
But, this giant knowledge edifice is built on solid foundations of mathematical reasoning (newton said this).
human genius is to invent a mathematical language to describe imaginary worlds precisely, and then a scientific method to apply that language to model the real world.