Mathematics, Existence and Reality
What is possible and not is an enigma. I’m not speaking of why a person cannot flap its arms and fly like a bird. That we know is not possible. Why? We’re not equipped to do so and no one has reported it. Surely I would shout at the top of my lungs, ”I can fly like a bird, if I could.”
No, this is about the impossible being created out of nothing. On the one hand something that has not been discovered before, or should I say created, is new. Since it is new and a construct of the mind. Can we claim it never was therefore it is ours, created out of nothing? If we say YES, then we can say we operate outside of that which has been divined as ours back yard, our existence. If we say NO it has always been and it is predefined and impossible not to find if we exercise our mental ability.
When a lion drags down a deer, it does not empirically measure the deer’s health, size or weight. For the lion it is food and it will last how ever long it lasts. That is the lions existence and it’s mental extension to food. We on the other hand have selected the entire world as our food stores. We select a 32 oz. Steak, a baked potato, sour cream and a salad. That’s supper and we are satisfied. We check our mental pockets or our actual pockets and know how much money we have. We can eat till Thursday and we get paid Friday therefore we have a day of hunger or we can eat less expensive meals. I guess we should have had a hot dog instead of that large steak. We think of these things, our food supply in abstract terms days, money, where and what we eat. We developed these concepts out of want, not need. We could have still bartered or been self-sufficient. But we wanted more therefore we developed a system and nurtured friendly relations. We developed concepts that are extensions of more primitive existences. Families of Hippos allow little birds to pick parasites from their bodies, cooperation.
Where do we draw the line between saying “I did this out of nothing, it never was and it never could be at this time in this place except by me?” I claim this victory for myself at this point in existence. All may be true, except and it was specified, someone else could have discovered it, somewhere or sometime different.
But the essential point is not that it was discovered but that “what claim may be made regarding its preexistence?” Did these things exist before creation or were they there to create?
Mathematics is an expression of our existence as is physically portrayed through the universe. We merely model and explain what it is doing. If we developed a model of something that never was, or could not ever have been and has no relevance in existence then it can never be.
I believe existence and our comprehension of it as is called Reality, is only limited by our ability to emulate it through our mental constructs and exposure to others for consideration.
