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echo: philos
to: JONATHAN MCELROY
from: MARK BLOSS
date: 1998-02-24 06:25:00
subject:

>
>Jonathan Mcelroy wrote to Mark Bloss about 
 > > and
 > >  WE> god partakes of this imaginary substance. 
 > > 
 > >  Yet, aren't they so good at what they do?
 JM> Ok... I'm sorry to butt in.. but I am anxious for a conversation.  I
 JM> really have no solid understanding of what you are talking about...
 JM> but, so far, I have gathered that: 
 JM> Integers are a concept and thus are "imagined."
 JM> Integers help us grasp the existence of god.
 JM> Both god and integers are made up of this "imaginary substance."
 JM> Am I right?
  Hehe--- well - you're not even close but you're not far off either...
  
  Integers - indeed all mathematics - is a medium of the consciousness -
  (there's not a number 2 floating around for people to take pictures
  of, so to speak).  Numbers, speaking loosely of course, are made up
  of conceptualized symbols which reference day-to-day substance; God
  is also a conceptualized symbol which references the concrete 
  "creation"; that is - they both relate to the physical world in the
  same way - but they are not made up of imaginary substance - unless
  by that you mean references symbolizing substance by the consciousness
  _only_.
  
  
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