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Re: Ariadne's thread
Posted:
Dec 10, 2011 2:12 AM
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From the top of a sky scraper you may have a glorious
view over the city and landscape, but you can hardly see
what happens down in the street. If you look at early
mathematics from the height of our time you are bound
to miss many a simple but clever method. Artificial
Intelligence failed writing a computer program that
could make a robot walk. Embodiment is the answer,
a bottom up approach complementing the powerful but
limited top down approach. In the same way experimental
archaeology complements classical archaeology, and I
expand this idea to experimental history and archaeology
of early mathematics.
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