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’.
- Does it precede our reality?
- We certainly didn’t fully create mathematics or the myths.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Nothing is the physical world exacts to the symbols in math. There are no exact boundaries to things (Heap or Sorites paradox).