The meaing of mathematics in Against the Day.....

[David Morris]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> “The political crisis in Europe maps into the crisis in mathematics. […] The connections lie there […] – hidden and poisonous. Those of us who must creep among them do so at our peril.”
>
> If the" foundational crisis" is not being referred to in that statement, what is?
>
> We know that the arguments and competing ideas that constitute the foundational crisis were underway in the time period of the book and that some of those concerns are reflected in the quaternion, vectorist debate.

P's use of the Foundational Crisis is really just another version of
his "Shall I project a world" concept, and also related to his
paranoia theme:    Are the patterns that we see really there, or are
they the product of our mind?  Is there a conspiracy, a god, a
foundation?  Or are we really alone and adrift?  P's subject matter
never really changes, just the angles he approaches it from.

David Morris