Re: [Marxism] Laws of Nature, Source Unknown

[clyder@xxxxxxxxxx]

>
> Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
>> What would be some Marxist positions about the below? Should a Marxist
>> agree
>> with this ontological primacy of the world over human subjectivity?
>> Thoughts, anyone?
>>
>> Dr. Tegmark maintains that we are part of a mathematical structure,
>> albeit
>> one gorgeously more complicated than a hexagon, a multiplication table
>> or
>> even the multidimensional symmetries that describe modern particle
>> physics.
>> Other mathematical structures, he predicts, exist as their own universes
>> in
>> a sort of cosmic Pythagorean democracy, although not all of them would
>> necessarily prove to be as rich as our own.
>

I think that some of the best materialist writing on this at the moment is
from Deutsch, who says that it is in fact the laws of physics that make
mathematics possible rather than vice versa. The originally set this out
in his 1984 paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society, and has
elaborated it in other papers on the web and elsewhere.


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