What kind of cognitive algorithms generate the feeling that numbers are “out there”?
Perhaps the same sorts that generate feelings like ‘lines and edges are out there’ or that ‘we say distinct words’ (rather than continuously slurred together sounds) or which leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
Perhaps the same sorts that generate feelings like ‘lines and edges are out there’ or that ‘we say distinct words’ (rather than continuously slurred together sounds) or which leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing