jayrandom | Числа и мы

"Things not yet speakable of in and of themselves may still be coded and the code discovered, used and discussed by those not yet aware of its experiential reference and meaning (...) Number can code all reality, whether experienced or not, in such nonarbitrary fashion as to reveal objective insights into the nature of that reality even before direct conscious experience with it."

"Thus things we do not and even cannot yet know may still be coded by number. Knowing this, however, enables us to see the properties of number more consciously as a code of reality, and arrive at an experience of it much more quickly than without the aid of that unique codе (...) knowing that we have the code of something not yet known puts the unknown that much more within our grasp (...) Number is thus the most powerful antidote to ineffability that man can use."

"Nothing encodes itself. Only intelligence encodes or decodes. Hence some intelligence has arranged the predictive agreement (between reality and the number code) we call science. The coding of as yet unexperienced reality in terms of experienced forms, of which numbers are the most refined, is never absent in reality. (If it were, the unity would be broken, the code would not apply, experience would become arbitrarily inconsistent and reality would self-destruct)."

-- Charles Musès, Arthur M. Young, "Consciousness and reality; the human pivot point".

Интересно ещё прочитать интервью с Музесом.
(обратить внимание на образ человека-фонтана; этот образ мощнее платоновских теней, поскольку заодно передаёт идею наблюдаемой статики и скрывающейся за ней динамики)