clipka wrote:
> Am 11.12.2010 13:14, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
> 
>> By contrast, this paper seems to assert that mathematics is about
>> constructing abstractions and building theories out of them as a matter
>> of creativity. Obviously I've never seen any cutting-edge mathematics
>> (and I never will), but I've always thought of mathematics looking at
>> interesting systems and discovering their properties, out of simple
>> human curiosity. Certainly that's why *I* explore mathematics; it's the
>> desire to know everything about everything.
> 
> ... despite there existing proof that this desire is insatisifiable 
> (which I find an interesting thing to know, too) - and not only in this 
> world, but also in any imaginable one (another interesting thing) except 
> for pretty boring worlds.

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