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Subject: Long time, no see.

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 09/11/04 11:47pm
In reply to: Don 's message, "Well days and years are nothing but ..." on 09/11/04 2:14pm

>Well days and years are nothing but place holders in a
>counting system, as math is, that exist only in the
>mind of man as far as we know. If aliens can count I
>supose you have to show an alien first. See any aliens
>around lately?

I've fought around with this idea for quite some time, actually. I can't decide whether or not math is some fundamental constituent of reality, or just merely a human convenience. I'm inclined to think that if some alien civilization came along and they had something like math, (if it even be a requisite) that the pieces may be more advanced, but would contain derivations of what we've found.

It really is more a question of "Does reality continue to exist when everybody is dead?" and I find that to be a difficult one to answer. It seems like nature ought to persist indepedent of us, but if we die and we are the deciders of reality to each of ourselves (and reality is a little different to each person) then I'm not sure that reality does exist, or even if we ever had it in the first place.

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Subject	Author	Date
yep - profundities abound...	Duane	09/12/04 4:44am
and sometimes with profundities come headaches -- Damoclese, 09/13/04 1:53am Chat Thingy -- Duane, 09/13/04 6:21am Sounds good -- Damoclese, 09/13/04 5:21pm You wrote a very interesting post Duane -- Don, 09/16/04 1:06pm Thanks! -- Duane, 09/17/04 5:55am
I never fought with that question of	Don	09/16/04 12:05pm
Simple answers aren't always good answers -- Damoclese, 09/16/04 2:53pm