The Truth in Maths and Myths

Myth here refers to entities/events described in religions and other ancient books, and also from recent times like Superman.

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👧: “what is a rectangle, mam? And what do these equations represent?”

🧑‍🏫: “It is an abstraction of what occurs in the real world.”

👧: “But I don’t see the rectangle, or these equations exactly the same way in the real world…!”

🧑‍🏫: “That’s right! A condensed abstraction is much easier to understand, calculate, study and build upon. They’re not supposed to be real, but in a way,

They’re more real than reality itself”

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Myth entities like the Greek Gods or Hindu Gods including evil characters - they represent real archetypes. They are the shapes or equations that we see in a book, and represent all reality, but not present in reality itself.

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Let’s call the myth world and the world where mathematics recide as ‘meta world’.

1. Does it precede our reality?
2. We certainly didn’t fully create mathematics or the myths.
3. Did it emerge as we evolved?

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• Meaning occurs as a result of (i) Recursion, as (roughly) explained in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter and (ii) Emergence.
• Real world entities and abstract entities in meta world only have meaning when we Humans give meaning to them. Maybe because we cannot have a view other than a selfish view.
• Even mathematics doesn’t have any meaning without Human connection (as verified by a noteworthy mathematician).

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• Nothing in the physical world can approach or exact to, the symbols in the meta world.
  1. Nobody in the physical world is as good as Superman or Jesus. Nobody is also as purely evil as some demons described in ancient books. Also applies to events (Note: Some entities/events described in the myths may be a little more realistic, like Zack Snyder’s Batman does kill poeple, he’s not as perfect as canonical Batman.)
  2. Nothing is the physical world exacts to the symbols in math. There are no exact boundaries to things (Heap or Sorites paradox).