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Why Is the Cosmos Comprehensible? | Melissa Cain Travis

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The Keplerian Tripartite Harmony of Archetype Copy an Image

Kepler would say all of these wonderful mathematical qualities of the world are situated in the mind of God, and they are made manifest in the material world. And thus we are able to do the natural sciences that require these kind of intellectual tools. So Kepler gives us this harmony that's internally coherent and makes sense of what Penrose calls three great mysteries. One day science will figure out why we have these grand connections between mathematics, the material realm, and the mind of man.

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