Comment on Arithmetic has a biological origin – it's an expression in symbols of the 'deep structure' of our perception

Bye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Math does not have any cosmic origin, it’s a tool we came up with to represent reality; a model.

The universe does not do math. It doesn’t count the number of atoms in a teacup, it doesn’t compare heights of trees to see which gets shade. Those quantities don’t exist: we made them up so we could understand the world.

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