Yea, math is for people who are bad at gambling, but who also prefer
not to ‘cheat’ by watching to see what’s happening directly…
It’s a guesser’s tool, and in a few kinds of
situations you don’t need to guess. You can “sneak a peak”
and directly see. Like when all the resources for an entire
self-adjusting system produce progressive diminishing returns for increasing
effort at the same time. You don’t need to guess what’s
happening. It’s as easy to conclude what’s
happening as when seeing the hood of your car crumpling as you feel the coincident
jerk of unexpected sudden deceleration. You clearly running into
something is the simple answer. The math can’t represent an
environment, though, till after the fact, and that marks the difference between
the tools of guessers and observers.
Phil
From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:26 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is mathematics? Really?
Nick -
"Does anybody know who it was or from what point of
view they were speaking when they referred to mathematics as
"neutral" between idealism and realism"
Just to elaborate on this, it is my understanding
that: Mathematics is for people who are bad at gambling !
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