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by kartan 3360 days ago
> Yet mathematics is a language with distinct limitations. It can only describe abstract structures and relations.

I have a hard time getting this point. Mathematics began as something concrete. In fact, abstract mathematics is one huge accomplishment of the human mind.

In general, I find all the article hard to read. Maybe I lack the expertise to fully grasp what is this about. But it looks like there is no attempt to explain the ideas in clear terms.

I will suggest that if you want to know more about consciousness Daniel Dennett is a better read.

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Welcome back to the 70s marxist discussion groups, where all sentences are just rumbling empty cargo-trains of abstraction, promising huge trainloads full of future deep meaning - going nowhere. Good we discussed this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDnA0in1t0