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MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 day agoMath isn’t arbitrary. Otherwise there wouldn’t be constant debate about whether it’s a human creation or fundamental to any existence.
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MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 day agoMath isn’t arbitrary. Otherwise there wouldn’t be constant debate about whether it’s a human creation or fundamental to any existence.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
natural laws of the universe can be described with our maths. but i’m pretty sure the universe didn’t go “ah yes, 1+2=3 i can work with that! let there be light”.
the numbers, the symbols, the equations - they’re all human made, an attempt to describe things in a way that can be understood by us. but is this how they are? of course not. no wave or particle would describe itself the way we describe them, in fact they wouldn’t describe themselves at all - they simply are
MotoAsh@piefed.social 23 hours ago
The operations and concepts they represent exist with or without humans.
shneancy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
they do indeed, and us humans invented ways to describe them with maths