I'm starting to think that mathematical beauty is a reflection of the beauty of the mind; projecting patterns onto reality is its function.
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The etymology of Maya; illusion is interesting: it’s (likely) derived from the Sanskrit root mã-, “to measure” or man-, “to think”. (Perhaps there’s a connection to “mathematics” as well? 😄)
Anyways, projecting patterns onto reality to measure it is indeed the mind’s function. Now when we come to hold these abstract patterns of our imagination as same thing they represent, we’re under the illusion of Maya; we expect a picture of a banana to satisfy our hunger...
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...or think that a mathematical description of reality is the blueprint that reality follows, which will satisfy the mind’s hunger to “figure out” reality.
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