The problem with mathematics is that it is inherently contradictory/paradoxical.
Consider this, before we can think about something like e.g a math problem....we need time, say 1 second. But 1 second is composed of an infinite amount of fractions of a second. So before we can pass the threshold of 1 second, we first have to pass all these smaller fractions of time....this is an impossibility due to the infinite amount of fractions of time between the zero moment and 1 second...so no thought is possible mathematically.
In fact life is not possible...since there was no time to create it.
]]>If you are a Platonist, you will believe it is discovered. The inference is that it exists in nature and therefore is incredibly deep and meaningful.
If you are a Formalist, you will believe that it is an invention of man like a game such as chess. It has rules and is logical but it is artificial.
At 1:22 into the video we see a Unicorn, an EBE and a werewolf or zombie all on the Moon or some other lifeless looking ball. Makes one wonder whether ole Jeff has ever been to Nevada.
]]>If mathematics was invented to cope with sensory information linking it to reality. I would just like to say that all sensory information is real. Just because you could be dreaming doesn't mean you are.
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]]>Why is that difficult?
]]>I think it was invented, because numbers don't exist. They are a placeholder we use for a certain amount. They're not exactly one thing, if they were, shape-shifting could exist, because numbers would be everywhere. They're sort of a principle.
The idea of a placeholder makes sense.
Objects counted any other way would still be just as numerical. The numerical quality itself perhaps comes with objects being physical. There might be 1 x 10^80 atoms in the physical universe ... it's an intrinsic quality/principle of the universe, we might say?
Mathematics is an artifact of the human mind, and a tool whereby the human mind wraps itself around reality.
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Yes, exactly right, digits.
EVERYTHING we think and talk about - even you, digits.
The brain, we think (imagine?), receives things we call "sensory nerve signals".
This is the stuff from which the BRAIN dreams up the "world" and calls it "real" (in order to prolong its sanity!) The ones who thought the sabre tooth tiger "not real" got eaten.
If you doubt this, tell me how you know right now you are not dreaming!
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