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The Fundamental Problem of Physics, How Many Sheep Do You Have?
Mathematics is the development of systems for thinking about the properties and relations among sets of idealized objects. The mathematical notation system that we unfortunately focus way too much on is just our way of expressing positions about these properties. And one of the things that makes for the incredible achievements of the human mind is the fact that humans invented these idealized systems to allow all this kind of thing to happen.