Just as notably, a lot of pure maths does eventually find a practical use.
Re body building, that is why, although I work out in various ways, I have no interest in body building. I want the body I live in to work as well as possible for as long as possible, but am content to let form follow function.
I certainly don’t mean to be a killjoy, I leave that to Insanity Wolf. But I do think that some forms of joy are less valuable than others, for the same reason that wireheading is the ultimately evil sort of joy.
Mathematical forms are a reduction of language in an attempt to make obvious through simplification and a more rigid form and grammar of the organization of ideas.
I do wonder about what you think of “pure math”. Some of the number theorists tried to be proud that their work had not yet been applied anywhere.
And in fittness you have body building where you don’t use the body for anything.
I guess the stance that things should only have instrumental value is consistent, but seems a bit weird for me.
Just as notably, a lot of pure maths does eventually find a practical use.
Re body building, that is why, although I work out in various ways, I have no interest in body building. I want the body I live in to work as well as possible for as long as possible, but am content to let form follow function.
I certainly don’t mean to be a killjoy, I leave that to Insanity Wolf. But I do think that some forms of joy are less valuable than others, for the same reason that wireheading is the ultimately evil sort of joy.
Mathematical forms are a reduction of language in an attempt to make obvious through simplification and a more rigid form and grammar of the organization of ideas.