Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassnut
Man is a product of nature, so how can nature itself be "irrelevent" to human "conceptualizing and making mental and logical connections".
Or is there some aspect of human thought that was installed by something other than nature?.
|
The truths of pure mathematics exist independently of any conscious being or any particular Universe that supports that being. As a hypothetical situation- two conscious beings in separate Universes could theoretically communicate the logic of mathematics even though the physics of their particular Universes might be quite different. The mathematics is discoverable as a logical system but is not dependent on the physical Universe itself i.e. the home Universe (nature) is irrelevant to the mathematics.
Regards, Rob