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abstraction or separation of the tactile from the other senses,
whereas the yes-no which precedes it is a more “whole”
response. Such, at any rate, are the new binary computers that
dispense with number, and make possible the structuralist
physics of Heisenberg. For the ancient world, numbers had not
been just tactile for measurement as they became in the split
visual world of the Renaissance. As de Chardin states it in his
Phenomenon of Man (p. 50):
What ancient thought half perceived and imagined as a
natural harmony of numbers, modern science has
grasped and converted in the precision of formulae
dependent on measurement. Indeed, we owe our
knowledge of the macro-structure and micro-structure of
the universe far more to increasingly accurate
measurements than to direct observations. And, again, it