>>11183599>If mathematics is helping us describe reality,>then what is things like [...] trying to describe to us?See? This is what I was talking about. I said mathematics is man-made, yet we still believe it must be some inherent feature of reality that "speaks to us" or "describes us something". Mathematics is man-made, if it doesn't make sense it's not because it's telling us something's wrong, but that the math is, in fact, wrong. Division by zero, infinity and other imaginary mathematical problems are NOT representative of reality or exist at all. They're just an example of us trying to impose our mental models onto the real world.
It's as if you were drawing a topographic map of a zone you haven't explored and assuming that, because of the direction of streams and rivers you've seen, there must be a mountain further up your road. Then you draw that mountain on the map and pass it to someone else, who doesn't know that mountain was just an assumption. And when that person goes there, the mountain does not exist. What is wrong, the territory or the map? In the same way, fundamental mathematics and theoretical concepts are wrong or were just intended to be a placeholder, an X to be solved, for those who would come later with better means to solve that question.
