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.
Physical objects are encodings that we discover over observable patterns of information. Something real is generating the patterns. This underlying reality may be mathematical in nature, but the mathematical objects we think about construe a purely virtual domain.
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Can natural selection generate patterns?
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Natural selection is a very successful model that we discovered to explain observed complexity.
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So therefore you believe mathematics is real and the world/universe is unreal as this is just the model in our mind? Mathematics generates the pattern i.e the universe
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No, mathematics is eerily accurate at DESCRIBING what is real. It is only one of many ( the most powerful we know of) abstract entities that that- depending on what level of emergence you refer to... is real. This is true for only part of mathematics btw.
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