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by Dylan16807 15 hours ago
All you have in the real world is scribbles on paper.

I'm sorry, what did you mean by "how complicated the world we inhabit is" because I thought you were talking about physical interactions of matter and energy.

If you're including all math as "real world", then I think the claim that math teaches you something useful about the complexity of the real world is what actually disappears up its own backside.