| I don't understand why people still believe in this concept. For me it's quite simple: 1. Our nervous system has quite narrow and well defined capability of receiving signals from the outside world. Every of our senses has own limitations. We can't see UV or IR etc. 2. Our body has a specific way of interacting with the world : we have specific size, strength, have to operate as one, undivided entity etc. 3. With such input coming from the above points, our brain creates a specific model of the outside world to function in it, interact, count apples and lions etc. 4. Part of this model is this cool toolset containing math and logic. It's very useful for us to predict and analyze the world and it's so flexible that we can expand and bend it according to our will in face of mismatch between observable reality and math. So there is no surprise that we keep seeing math around us. We created it as a result of interaction with the world. But to insist that math is the real way the world works is ridiculous. It's like saying that there's nothing beyond the visible spectrum of light because we can't see it. I'm quite sure that any creatures with significantly different bodies than ours would come up with different "math" and different view of the universe. EDIT: I was trying to imagine such creatures but gaps in my knowledge and limitations of my homo sapiens mind are hard to escape and imagine something unimaginable. But I'll give it a try: Think of a creature built of 100 autonomously moving clouds of particles, sharing one consciousness. The clouds can change their sizes in the ping-pong - planet range and communicate by radio waves. I think that just the ability to watch specific event from 100 perspectives would give this alien completely different psychology and approach to the logic, truth etc. |