What many people don’t quite understand is that mathematics, like the sciences does not invent things, it discovers them. The structures are already there.
That is not such an unquestionable truth, there are many different schools of thoughts. None overly useful.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by that, but Platonism has been useful for inspiring Tegmark’s Ultimate Ensemble, which has been useful for inspiring UDT.
Can’t say that I find either very useful (in the instrumentalist sense, anyway), but I suppose if you count inspiration for a couple of rather speculative ideas as useful, I agree.
That is not such an unquestionable truth, there are many different schools of thoughts. None overly useful.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by that, but Platonism has been useful for inspiring Tegmark’s Ultimate Ensemble, which has been useful for inspiring UDT.
Can’t say that I find either very useful (in the instrumentalist sense, anyway), but I suppose if you count inspiration for a couple of rather speculative ideas as useful, I agree.