Comments | unnamed525: Mental health issues threaten 'knowledge economy'

unnamed525

Mental health issues threaten 'knowledge economy'

Nov 03, 2006 13:02

In a knowledge economy, people work increasingly with their heads instead of their hands. This makes mental health a crucial component of economic growth. However, the knowledge economy leads to high levels of stress and mental health problems. By damaging its ‘mental capital’ the knowledge economy undermines the basis for its own success. These ( Read more... )

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unnamed525 November 12 2006, 22:44:12 UTC

I don't know what I was thinking at the time. Statements are mind-dependent entities; they can't have a truth-value without there being a mind to entertain them.

However ... unnamed525 November 13 2006, 04:38:41 UTC

I'd still say that numbers aren't mind-dependent entities; that's numerals. Numbers are abstractable features of mind-independent reality (that we can use them so successfully to predict phenomena gives support for this, I'd say), but that doesn't mean that there's only one possible abstraction from any given phenomenon; that various abstractions are mutually exclusive doesn't make them any less abstractable features.