/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5575433
>why do people make fun of X all the time
here_we_go.tiff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

newflash: 'this board' doesnt make fun of it
SOME PEOPLE, might, but then so what?
why do you give a fuck what other people think?
if you like the course, then do it, enjoy it, and do well.

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symbols are approximate representations of phenomena.

All symbols science uses, when it uses them, are intermediate symbols, on the way to some better symbol that more accurately describes reality.

Therefore, the scientific symbol for any phenomena IS the phenomenon itself.

We can only hope to make something that approximately describes it.

The universe is a qualitatively endless explanation of itself.

But mathematics doesn't describe the laws of nature, it has no connection to the physical world.

Mathematics was forged in the electrochemical signals coursing along your brain, kingdom of neurons that it is.

The information encoded therein, collectively in the minds of all sentient mathematicians throughout the history of the universe, is where mathematics has its connection with reality as a physical phenomenon.

And so too is information encoded in the ink splatters on Euclid's papyrus.

Minds were made to churn out more thoughts regarding mathematics via processes we need both physics and biology to understand.