Numbers have made it possible for us to construct -- literally -- the modern world we live in. Arithmetic. Calculus. Mathematics in general. Without these, we would still be living in caves -- and there are too many of us to go back to that.
Without math, we don't even know how many of us there are.
But math is just a symbol system we use for seeing the world a certain way. Language is the same thing -- a tool we use to see and "understand" the world a certain way.
The deepest "world," though, is the one that cannot be reached through numbers and words.
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Mumbles
Four has arms crossed
Passing judgment.
Three dares anybody
To divide without fractions.
Two refuses to apologize
For constructing a binary universe.
One majestically squats
Contemplating the omphalos.
Zero is wishful thinking
Smiling madness.
As for imaginary
Numbers, there’s always
Somebody to mop up
What doesn’t exist.
[Disposable Poem November 24, 2009]
Dr. Mike
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