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JoeDawg
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emyt said:If 2+2 = 5 because one gets pregnant and thus creating another human being, the equation would be 2+3 = 5; unless you don't consider the baby inside the womb to be a human being, but then why would you at the same time say that 2 humans plus another 2 humans equal 5?
Why would you? well that is the point. The kind of system you create will depend on what you want to do with it. If you want to describe procreation as part of your system, then 1+1=3, and 2+2=5, etc...
Your math depends on correspondence. There are mathematical systems that don't include the concept of zero. There are systems that are based on one, a few, more than a few.
And this is why you literally have to create new math to describe experiene which is quite alien to what you normally experience, for example, quantum reality. Because different things are important to you.
Saying, why, and what is important, is just part of defining your system.