Comment on fishing for math
girl@lemm.ee 11 months agoExcept there is math in nature, such as fractals and the Fibonacci sequence. Sure nature doesn’t have any awareness of doing math, but it is there. Not all math is made up just for our understanding.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 months ago
That’s kinda the point though. Math is a language inspired by reality. It describes relationships between things in an abstract format. Physical sciences like physics or chemistry build off it by adding rules and units to more accurately describe or predict real-world relationships, but at the end of the day, it’s all made up. Nature isn’t doing math to create a fractal any more than you’re doing math when you move your fingers or toes. Math doesn’t create a fractal, it describes it. You can then use that description to create a fractal, but the fractal isn’t math.
frunch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This conversation reminds me of the first couple times i surfed Reddit over a decade ago. It was so cool to be in a place where intelligent and interesting discussion was happening… Wish i could contribute something useful to it, but i just want to thank you all for carrying that kind of energy into the '20s 🥂