Math is haunted by the religion of platonism. "Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being" by Lakoff and Nunez offers a physicalist description of mathematics that is well worth the read.
What is calculus, anyways?
>The mathematical study of change.Where does "the mathematical study of change" come from?
>according to cognitive linguistics, from our embodied experience of the world.Doesn't this suggest an intimate connection between the mathematical study of change and our experience in the world of it?
>Yes, those are the necessary implications.Doesn't this have implications for evolutionary change in conscious experience over time, and our perception of change?
>That's what I'm counting on: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tao_of_Calculus/comments/9rpnrl/space_taoism_101/What does this have to do with cultural/memetic change over time?
>A memetic / empathic singularity, recursive mutual improvement in human relationships.Cool, are there any memepunk animes that give an easy introduction to all of this?
>Glad you asked, yes there is: https://vimeo.com/specalblendAnother key reference:
https://www.religion-online.org/article/influence-as-confluence-bergson-and-whitehead/>for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.TL;DR Calculus isn't just math, but epistemology.
