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I was reading the wiki on this and found it very interesting and would like to hear what established mathematicians and physicists think about this kind of philosophy.
Personally I believe that God(used in reference to the universe itself, am not religious) created infinity and man created finite numbers since the world we perceive is finite and that's how our brain organizes everything and keeps us going. Everything in our little lives is finite and it seems ignorant to think that the true reality of our universe is that mundane, I am not saying everything is infinite since I don't know the truth either but I think ignoring infinity is due to the fact that it just doesn't work nicely in mathematics and some are almost scared of its complexity since as humans we don't know of anything tangible that is infinite. Our perception of the truth is blinded by our primitive senses. We know what we perceive, and anything beyond that is coined theoretical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism
Personally I believe that God(used in reference to the universe itself, am not religious) created infinity and man created finite numbers since the world we perceive is finite and that's how our brain organizes everything and keeps us going. Everything in our little lives is finite and it seems ignorant to think that the true reality of our universe is that mundane, I am not saying everything is infinite since I don't know the truth either but I think ignoring infinity is due to the fact that it just doesn't work nicely in mathematics and some are almost scared of its complexity since as humans we don't know of anything tangible that is infinite. Our perception of the truth is blinded by our primitive senses. We know what we perceive, and anything beyond that is coined theoretical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism