Re: Did prime numbers evolve?



Thus cwaeth Free Lunch :
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:48:16 +0200, in talk.origins
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote in
<1if9b88.1yu3ek01h2ei0eN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
dkomo <dkomo871@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, of course they did. Prime numbers are concepts in human
brains, and human brains obviously evolved. Prime numbers have no
independent existence outside of human minds. If humans went
extinct, prime numbers would go extinct along with them.

Plato will get you! [1]

Jan

[1] And punish you by locking you in a cave.

Where you will see your shadow and inflict six more weeks of winter on
the upper Midwest.

Over and over and over again, for ever and ever, or at least until
Clarence gets his wings. Or was that a different film? It's so hard to
tell.


.



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