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Re: Math: Did we discover or create it?
But what is counting? numbers are as meaningless as numbers. The only reason we may think we discovered it and it was inherent in life as we know is because we can't, easily, intuitively think about life being any other way. Try making a new word for 'rock' and pass it on to other people.
Think about it like this, what if we thought of numbers on the bases of 9's rather than 10's, how would that change our life and how we think? what if there were no correlation from 123456789 to 102030405060708090 and so on. What if each digit had a new symbol and people just kept making new symbols all the way up, never stopping. Man wouldn't that be a pain, but don't you think it would change how we think quite significantly?
Everything in life is there, we just have to "create" a structure for understanding, reasoning and remembering for passing on. We created math to help us solve the mysteries of life, but since life is chaotic, not everything can be calculated, thus math is not a discovery that has always been.
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