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Subject: Re: intelligence and the initial conditions of the universe (BANG!!!)
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Date: 21 Aug 89 12:20:11 GMT
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In article <2182@hub.UUCP>, silber@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
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>Intelligence and its instantiation as reasoning must be conditioned by
>the initial conditions of the universe; if the universe had started as
>a continuous distribution of matter, there would have been no discrete
>sets (?), hence no numbers. if the initial conditions had decreed a different
>set of discrete elementary particles, there would have been a different
>number theory, different primes, or perhaps no primes at all (?)