[jayruy]

> 'Nature follows from the basic mathematical assumptions.'

This statement is more treacherous than you give it credit for. If we understood all those mathematical assumptions, wouldn't that be the death of free will?

One might make the statement that mathematics is the act of discovering god's laws, but godel makes even that statement treacherous because he proves god's laws can never be consistent.

my understanding of the modern philisophical take on mathematics is that it's just the invention of useful tools for manipulating logical entities, which can seem rather pedestrian to the layman - but will never deter a true mathematician