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

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• 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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• StringTheory@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thus, our results show that arithmetic is biologically-based and a natural consequence of how our perception is structured.

  Arithmetic could be something completely different than what we think it is. Very cool.

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