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by goatlover 2091 days ago
What does the mean, though? Mathematics as we understand it is an abstraction. If the universe is fundamentally abstract, what breathes fire into the models? Consciousness?
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Modal realism. A mathematical structure is "real" to its conscious inhabitants (if any), and merely an abstraction from the perspective of those who are not, i.e. the inhabitants of other mathematical structures.