2012-05-13

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2012-05-13

Title text: 2012-05-13

Votey

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Dad, what's 1+1?

Good question. Is "i+1" just a symbolic expression of what seems to

Always happen when I put one object next to another? Or is the putting together of

Objects an expression of

An existent but abstract

Idea of duality.

I believe it's an abstract

sooo.

Idea that exists, because

It means that even though mommy is gone, her pattern exists somewhere, and she was an expression

Of it that we got

To experience.

If not, we'd have to conclude that a number of objects

Got together into an

Unspecial combination we called mommy" until

It ceased ordering

Itself and went

Away forever.

No, I couldn't accept such a notion. Somewhere the pattern of mommy exists. When we say "1+1" we summon an expression of the pure mathematical object, just as we summon the real mommy whenever we remember her.

If her being weren't written on the book of truth, waiting

Some day to be read again, no quantity of hope could

Keep me living in this

Vast cold universe.

sssoco.

So what

Is i+1?

Later

sufficient

now

Votey Transcript

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Philosophy of math

Sadness

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