• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Weird how magic and mystery stops being magic when scientists have words for it.

    One day we’ll discover the afterlife, but we’ll just call them “Post-Human Conciousness Wells” or something, and insist it totally isn’t the same thing as that ancient superstition.

    Cmon, you wanna tell me the world is purely material when our math literally uses imaginary numbers to make sense of things?

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      1 year ago

      Imaginary numbers are merely a poorly named mathematical construct used to reconcile the empirically observable phenomena of nature (e.g., summations of waves). They’re the means by which we achieve mathematical closure under exponentiation. You could call them whatever the F you want, so long as they could be used to represent vectors in the complex plane.

      What reason do you have to believe in anything outside of material nature?