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Julie G.'s picture

Proof as a story

 I struggled with the notion of math and science as just another story until Logicomix and also this most recent conversation about how our brains interpret information became part of my analysis. What are Math and Science but observations and logic? And don't our brains have to interpret that information, or utilize that logic as an interpreting tool? What seems to be phenomenal about Math and Science is their seeming universality in terms of human, cross-cultural agreement, but even this is disputable -- not everybody chooses to subscribe to their teachings, and some advocate for that which opposes Science and Math. 

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