Re: Is the Mandelbrot Set real?

From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 1997 - 02:10:02 MDT


John K Clark wrote:
> >with the Mandeobrot Fractal, we may explore admittedly inexact
> >representations to the degree that our computational resources allow.
> >However, this does not say the Mandelbrot Set exists as a complete
> >object somewhere, only that we can explore some aspects of it in a
> >finite manner.

> but you got Mandelbrot wrong.

Nice response, but I don't understand how I got Mandelbrot wrong. I am
stating
that IMO the platonic notion that the entire Mandelbrot set exists is
unreal,
and what is real is our limited representations of same in our physical
brains,
which are finite.
 
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