The Truth in Maths and Myths

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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 recursion and 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).