Everything is quantifiable, and should be quantified.
Everything is a #measure or can be measured.
#Science can study anything, and #mathematics is the language of science.
The fact that some aspects of life seem hard to estimate doesn’t mean we are better off not even trying and coming up with our best approximation.
More #information rarely hurts, and even rough approximations (accompanied by their respective confidence intervals) are useful information.
One can measure, weigh and analyse… and still be sensitive, funny, romantic, impressionable, intuitive, creative — if one so chooses after all the (numeric) information is available.
@tripu Another way of saying it (especially about STEM) is that measuring something is one thing but having any sort of meaning to others is another thing.
So measuring is almost a kind of language of calling something x, or a number, to which any measurement I grant has *almost* universal standard or looks like it with patterns etc... but the meaning to anyone else is actually of high priority, so what they think other than the measurer and values you attribute... (there is a lot of interpretation there or error / transfer of numbers from tools)
Putting a strict value on things is generally asking for trouble... yes it seems to 'get things moving along' but it's exactly those inaccuracies people stop working for....
Generally everything is priceless or immeasurably in valuable (just opinion of needed or as part for life more than number format) so if you ask us (the humans species) vs. 1 persons opinion + the mechanical measuring device they are using (also man-made) mostly for physical units of interpretations, then you might say there is a mismatch there.
That's why to put a number on it is too accurate and used a million times a second for big calculation does everybody an injustice (accumulated inaccuracy)... and therefore looking at a vegetable I can't say this is worth a number or currency other than being forced too. I would choose 'feeding all' or 'relieving suffering' as the default not the man-made profit or die default. A 'dollar' is actually quite a terrible shorthand for an living object.
I often ask parents who are looking for examples "How much is are you kids worth?" or daughter / son / etc... That is measurable but it isn't the aim of life **which I admit in the first line of your post it seems to assume "...and should be quantified".
No actually don't measure me but number or the cat or future...
I know it was dying I'd still pay 100 for a cabbage but 1 or 100 is not really matching a cabbage it;s own wonder.
I guess that's another thing, everything is in it's own category / realm / eco-system although *we* inidividuals can standardise it, actually in this 1 moment in time everything is unique or full of wonder how it got there... and mistake for us not to treat it as unique
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^-- ok that was a good point also
I know it's locked down now with numbers as the way but 'relieve human suffering" and "share" or "work on those things as we progress of inaccurate numbers, mechanical thinking" has infinitely more value for me (value to me as pposed to numbers in a standard metric)
And of course people cheating using numbers / false accounting etc is something else.
But yes mostly people need the will to accept the wonder in being and that we could develop things given the same time as other stuff but current controllers currently block it. Arguably with currency which is even worse than number based counting as 1 dollar is actually different every day and equations out of wack too...
Ok that's enough for now, ok 1 more point.
Each person has their own measurement.
And given the chance they would use their own way of representing things.
( I might shorten this later. )
