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Mathematics often seems more discovered than invented; we're simply stumbling over things in a Platonic realm. Are there interface ideas with a similarly Platonic character, not so much invented as discovered?
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Perhaps there is So Much Plato (^TM) out there that our cultural and social positioning is the primary driver of what we get back. In other words, we're not stumbling over the rare conceptual rock, we invented the idea to notice the rocks and not the air, the dirt, the grass...
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