chess93

People can be asked and answer truthfully while animals are unable to do the same.

There are definitely gay people who get married and have kids though. An alien who doesn't understand humans might classify them as heterosexual.

A computer just does symbolic manipulation according to a list of rules (axioms) and the human/programmer specifies which sequence of symbolic manipulations to apply and then the computer simply states whether or not the specified manipulations transform the theorem in to the truth symbol.

http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmcomplex.html

(Warning: I've never actually done much of this before so some details might be wrong.)

I always thought it went

P: Sex outside of marriage is a sin.

Q: Marriage is between a man and a woman.

Therefore [P and Q] implies that homosexual activity is wrong but the mere act of being attracted to the same sex is not inherently sinful.

What I never understood is why these animals are actually considered "attracted to the same sex" when they really just "have sex with the same sex".

Perhaps this distinction does not seem like it matters but I predict in the future this distinction will be extremely common (in humans at least).

Universities have all of those things. 75k would easily cover tuition, meal plan, dorms/off campus living, university insurance policies, campus security, extracurricular programs, etc.

I agree. It reminds me of those personality tests like the Myers-Briggs INTJ/ENFP/QR5X. Everyone has an idea of what kind of personality they want to have and answers the questions in a way so that the result is biased towards their desired personality.

Similarly, when your therapist asks you a question, your answer is skewed by what you want the answer to that question to be. Or what you want your therapists reaction to your response to be. Or any number of factors.

This idea has led me to start doubting my subjective experience of basically everything. Do I not like someone because of how they act or do I not like them because I don't want to like them? Did I study computer science because I enjoyed it or because I wanted to make a good salary? Not to mention that other peoples' subjective experiences are probably even less reliable.

I have no idea how to answer my therapists questions because I don't trust the answer in the first place.

More like sailing in to the sun :)

Computer Modern

The only thing wrong with decimal from a mathematicians point of view is that an unnecessary (and unprincipled) choice of base is made. A more principled choice would be base 2, base 3 or base e. Base e makes sense because it is the most efficient base system under some metric [1]. Base 3 is the closest integer base to e and the most efficient integer base (although a more through analysis would compare base 2 and base 3 to see which one is more efficient because we can not just assume base 3 is better than base 2 because it is closer to e.) base 2 is the smallest base that really makes sense to use so that would be another option is and arguably more principled than base 10.

Most mathematicians are not concerned with which base the number system is in and are not really restricted in working in base 10. So in some sense almost all mathematicians don't really "use" decimal. In that regard, there are many possible interpretations to your question so probably many possible answers.

In other words, choosing to use base 10 instead of base 2 or 3 is like choosing to use python for your project because its easy, familiar and gets the job done rather than choosing a specialty language that would be "better" but harder to use.

[1]https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/446664/what-is-the-...