michael-welnick on Nostr: Is math invented or discovered? I find myself in the invented camp these days. Math ...
Is math invented or discovered? I find myself in the invented camp these days. Math doesn’t “exist” in the same way as a physical object like a rock. If humans never existed math would not exist but a rock still would. Also math is not as objective as most people think it is. It’s our collective best attempt to describe the complex phenomena that we observe but it’s not the thing itself.
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