Three Bulls!

I don't know what 'wonky' is? That said, it is certainly a fun word.

A thought: In my opinion the most fun word in English is 'banana'. Maybe it is the Chimpanzee in me, but by God I LOVE 'banana'! (I consider myself to be more-or-less to be 95% chimp). For Psycheout - "God bless the Wolof Peoples".

On the question of Platonicity of mathematics I am clearly...(o.k. see below, after some distractions...)

Our brains have evolved to do many-a-thing for our well being. One major task that seems to have been selected for is to re-create reality for us. Reality is 'out there somewhere' - we only have access to it through our various sensation receptors. The accuracy of our re-created realities are open for debate.

I am of the opinion that we, as Humans, are plagued with what I generally call imagination. Other creatures can sense the coming earthquake, and we cannot. We ascribe a 'sixth' sense to animals - I think this is silly. Rather than a sixth sense for all other critters, I would suggest that we are so continuously lost in our imaginations that our brains are not paying careful enough attention to reality - i.e. our environments. Other creatures don't have a sixth sense, rather we just aren't paying very careful attention - and thus impair the acuity of our five senses.

Ahh - metaphor and metonymy.

When Odysseus set sail on the Calypso he journeyed a long way, for a long time. During his odyssey he had to make many repairs to his ship. By the the time he returned home he had, in fact, replaced every single piece of wood. The question is: Is the ship still the Calypso?

Metaphorically we answer 'no', because the ship has physically been replaced. Metonymically we answer 'yes' because the ship has functioned as his ship, the Calypso.

Mathematics clearly can be both metaphorical and metanymical. But, we seem (here on the blog) to be searching for something beyond these two divisions. What are we searching for? Hard to describe...

The process of evolution has pushed our minds to accept only one or the other answer to our conundrum about the Calypso. However, perhaps the future shall demand that our minds accept both the metaphorical and metanymical answer, without contradiction.

There are brilliant people currently among us that ALREADY have the ability to do this!

Here is an example:

Let us talk about Timbaland. Although many of his raps focus on
producing music, I think some of his lyrics give us a glimpse as to where
within Timbaland his musical brilliance germinates. Creative talent often
comes from the ability to use one of our many natural faculties in a
non-intuitive way and apply it to a different realm of thought.

For example, take the following lyric from 'Cop That Sh*t', "So, up jumps
da' boogie, let the record work. (Uh huh)" This line is focused on the
kinetic, not the auditory. The sounds are kinetic - they are jumping, and
the description of the sounds - da' boogie - are kinetic. And then he
implores the vinyl record itself to toil and work - sweating and burning
energy to jump and boogie.

I wonder if he has the ability to visually and kinetically compose and
produce his music? His lyrics suggest he thinks of music in some abstract
visual way. In addition, if you watch him in the videos, I think his
movements are more akin to what I imagine 'kinetic composition' to be,
rather than choreographed dancing. With these two talents combined, I think
Timbaland is just brilliant!

O.k., I'm drunk, time for bed.

As I sign off - i recognize my post does not do justice to Plover's post. I must rectify this in the future.