All mathematics is produced by physical objects (brains, computers). Therefore the laws of physics determine what theorems are possible, and mathematics has no existence independent of our universe.
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This is a Statement of Faith? Or are you suggesting that it could be an empirical observation?
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Hmm. Perhaps there is an (unavoidable) ambivalence in the word 'mathematics'. On the one hand maths is what we humans have produced; on the other hand ppl who study maths or hard sciences tend to wind up believing in things external to themselves with independent existence …
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The solar system ran on maths before there were brains or computers.
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