Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:11:28 05/27/01
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Hi: Maths cannot explain reality IMHO. Maths reduces reality to quantity. It is in its nature. It is by principle a way of thinking that puts apart everything else but quantity. Sure, quantity gets a wider scope each new day: not only movement, mass, speed, but structures, etc, but even so it is far to represent reality. So what you get explained with Maths is not reality but that specific parcel of it that serves some specific purpose for us. That's great, but that's all. Of course some mathematician think different. There is in this activity, as in any other, a kind of arrogant presuposition that they are really getting into reality. They tends to dismiss any other kind of approach as "not rational", as "unscientifc", as sheer nonsense. Best mathematician thinks more humbly. They do see that any kind of modelation is just that, modelation, a useful toy for tinkering with the infinity of reality. This is not to say that that undefinite entity called "intuition" is the real way to understand. Here we find people falling in the same arrogant presuposition of some mathematicians. Here we see "poetic" kind of people putting his eyes wide open and saying they see things nobody else can see. Sheer shit. If I had to choose between some kind of arrogance and the other, I would choose tjose of the math side: at least they have something to show. Respect chess maths relation, this issue can be seen from two sides. From the side of the activity as such, there is not relation. We cannot postulate that the calculations of chess are even near those of maths. The chess calculations are just the aritmetic procedures of an unchangeable algorythm. Maths is a lot more creative. Nevertheless, by the other side there is a kind of sychological relationship as much maths engaged people tends to be chess engaged people. Here in my contry almost every high level chess player has some connection to hard sciences. I guess same happenes in other countries. Just look the profiles of people here. My best Fernando
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