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You think this stops at “Nature”?
Bless your heart.
Bless your heart.
Mathematics is very much about calculations. It is also very much about nature.
Beyond that, it is also about ‘worlds’ of pure necessity and design so far beyond those that are instantiated that it would strain the concept of ‘nature’ beyond recognition to include them in it.
Beyond that, it is also about ‘worlds’ of pure necessity and design so far beyond those that are instantiated that it would strain the concept of ‘nature’ beyond recognition to include them in it.
I should admit that the math that describes the operations of nature at her deepest level (e.g. spinors, fiber bundles, symplectic geometry/geometric quantization, Gauge thy, Hilbert spaces, etc...) are actually the parts I’m focused on. But math is like a honey badger to nature.
And Mathematics also doesn’t seem to care about biology as much as we want her to. So at that ‘effective layer’ pure math has not (yet) been very effective. And there is reason to believe that she will never be able to do for Komodo Dragons & finches what she has done for muons.
