nemesis wrote:
> 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.
> 


or perhaps of Turing himself? :p

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