/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9547866
I never said "everything" is an idea, I'm saying that ideas are necessary for there to be such a thing as a fact. Here is an instance of an idea at work:
>If you really believed that you wouldn't respect the non-negotiable fact you're not going to get on the internet without a machine that can do networking
If you didn't understand the concept of convertible identity you couldn't make such an analytic assertion. The empiricism you hold so dear would be absolutely impossible without a system of ideas to underlie it and give it form. Ideas like causality, identity, infinity, and so on. The "physical approach" to building computers, as you call it, has required quite a lot of abstract ideas in the form of mathematical ones throughout the years.
>You also probably don't try to heat up your food just by staring at it real hard.
>Chanting and doing a ceremonial dance while shaking a Peruvian Amazon gourd rattle isn't going to work.
Please. Are you deliberately misunderstanding what I'm saying?