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My words are in the English language. Mathematics is the language of the mathematician. Neither English nor mathematics is a pure, untouchable expression of ultimate truth. They are simply models or frameworks for dealing with experience. The numbers 0,1,2,3... are symbols representing concepts, nothing more. And like any language, they are open to interpretation. Again, only the man of the Tao can interpret them correctly, because he doesn't project self-existence onto things and become attached to them.

If the symbols of science are incorrectly interpreted, and if things are made out to be more than they are, then it is fair to say that science is plain wrong. Ideally, and purely, science is about producing workable answers to practical problems. There is nothing wrong in this - except that science cannot be separated from the human mind in which it finds its being. Mind is the sub-stratum of science, and if that mind is deluded, then science too, is invalid.

 

 

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