"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?" -- Albert Einsteinpic.twitter.com/t4AEO736cD
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"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?" -- Albert Einsteinpic.twitter.com/t4AEO736cD
So it can not be a product of our thought which is independent of experience. Or maybe our thoughts are dependent on experience.
I don’t really understand how this could be any other way. Can someone explain to me? That which is intuitive to us is rooted in the physical/biological processes that created us. Math doesn’t describe these things by default, we found formulations that can describe reality..
So Mathematics is only in our heads? Prime numbers are discovered though, right? They're not invented by us. They were there all along. Real, but not material. There's more to reality than matter. There's intelligibility. And where there's intelligibility, there's intelligence...
What makes us deserve it less is how full grown adults bash this gift and try to devalue its significance just because they think they know all about it and how "they won't ever need it" after going through middle school Algebra.
I used to think it was strange but nowadays I think its enevitable given that mathematics arose from modelling reality in the first place.
Geometry has a lot to answer for 
The Creator gifted us a language to understand the laws He set.
Wigner’s argument is such nonsense. How could we tell if string theory is appropriate, since we have no other means to apprehend the reality it purports to model?
And the only math we have with which to model reality is the math that exists! We can’t know if other math that does not yet exist would better fit reality. So a claim that math models reality appropriately suffers from a selection bias.
Actually Francesco M.K. Bialetto (1858-1936) proposed that Italian be used as the language of physics. His experiments with gravity involved tossing small chickens from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and measuring their acceleration with a crude precursor of the pitot tube.
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