Our brain has the capacity to model what it considers to be real. We experience these models as reality. By convincing someone that God is real and omniscient and omnipotent, you implement a process on their brain that has full read/write access on their personal reality.
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Is mathematics an abstract entity ( independent of what it so accurately describes or predicts about the physical world)?
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Mathematics is the domain of all formal languages. It is Hesse's "Glasperlenspiel". Mathematical objects exist in the same way as the Mandelbrot fractal: by picking a set of rules you can derive them, but they don't have an existence independently of the rules.
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