How inevitable is the concept of numbers?

Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by swagasaurus-rex on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:00PM (#27283867)

Another perspective could be that we are creatures emergent out of the physical and chemical processes of the universe.

There is some similarity or equivalence to some of these processes with mathematics, which allows us to model a subset of physics/chemistry with mathematics.

Because physics/chemistry can create us using rules that follow math (or even some undiscovered rules), this same physics/chemistry gives us the faculties of reason that lets us think about and apply math in some universal way

The physical, chemical, and mathematical substrate to which we are born allow us to even discover that the rules of math can be applied to some subset of the laws (or chaos?) of the universe.

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by mensetmanusman on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:05PM (#27283917)

Physics creates us, universe creates physics, … creates universe

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by anoncow on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:33PM (#27284661)

Math creates universe? The answer normally lies in the open. (I don't know though)

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by slver on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:56PM (#27285255)

... creates math.

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by mensetmanusman on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:04PM (#27304624)

42 creates …

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by moonchild on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:21PM (#27284577)

That is only circumstantial evidence.

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