Cultural Reflection on Mathematics
Abstract
Europe was a few km in the management of human intuition and aesthetics of the two extremes of IQ. Western cultural emphasis on the former, the emphasis on the management of intellectual and conceptual analysis in order to obtain knowledge of the understanding of public management. However, this understanding to Western science and culture into a kind of perverse regardless: on the one hand, science and the nature of a switching motion of matter due to the universally valid mathematical formula deductive system, the better In order of nature the true management of knowledge, and produce huge production capacity; other hand, this abstraction necessarily mean that the nature of scientific understanding as a quiet, non-color of the movement in the physical world, resulting In order to regardless of the emergence of machinery; loss of meaning in life science ; and human culture, science and culture and fight against fission; East and West divide. Science to overcome the crisis, we must get out of Europe and a few km of Fort壘, toward life, toward the aesthetic intuition, to the vast and rich sense of history and culture of the qualifications process philosophy to absorb nutrients. The Euclidean reason and aesthetic intuition stand in two poles of human intelligence. The Westerners are good at analyzing knowledge with logic and conceptual apparatus in order to arrive at the formalized comprehending of the world. However, the logical and conceptual analysis pushes the science culture to a dilemma. On the one hand, science makes all kinds of material motion appear as working in the way governed by formalized mathematics system and shows this kind of formalization as common effective to all kinds of motion. The formalization and abstraction of the material world really make human being endowed with the powerful capability to understand and rein the world. On the other hand, however, according to Whitehead, understanding and reining way based on formalism deprive human of intuition for evaluating and perceiving the meaning of the concrete living world, kill the aptitudes rooted in humanity and drive human being to live in a categorized world which is against human nature. As a result, the dilemma leads science to plunge in crisis. Thus, if we who live in this scientific culture want to avoid this crisis, we must go out the Euclidean fortress, to go straight forward to the lively world and real life, to restore our aesthetics intuition, and to take our nourishment from process philosophy