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Even very advanced mathematics has this feel. You can get a ways with formulae and the like—and it may even be that there is no other language by which you express yourself—but ultimately you build intuition and, as they say, the best proofs arise as a way of making something perfectly obvious apparently so.

There's a strong argument here to be made that all human reasoning is embodied. This isn't the same as a weaker one which might now be left trying to discuss why human's can talk about experiences we can never know—like the behavior at the surface of the sun. Instead, I mean more fundamentally that our brain is one designed to operate in our universe and that our universe plays by many nice rules. Things decompose and move, time flows, causality dominates. It appears increasingly that all of the tools to understand our universe are within these simple forces your brain can't not build an intuition for. To fail to do so would lead to catastrophic inability to function.