Math-5

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Title text: Thought I'd cheer people up during a rough time.

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Why do people hate math?

Math is substrate independent. It abides. It's a pattern. Take every pair of things and destroy it. You can still create another pair. 2 abides. Euler's identity abides. True things humans will never know abide, impassive, beyond view.

Jealousy.

Now, take a fungus. Everything a fungus is is bound up in the fungus. The fungus doesn't know it's a fungus. It's just a fungus. You can't imagine a fungus without its body. Its body is its self.

The problem for humans is they're in between. They have personalities that are patterns that could in principle be embedded in other hardware and still be themselves. Only they can't do that because they're made of stuff, just like the fungus.

The pattern wants out. The body is impassive. The pattern despairs and tells itself stories about its permanence or builds philosophies to assure itself the situation is tolerable.

So, there's humans. Math enmeshed in meat. Sunbeams stuck in swamp.

You think that's why 9 year olds don't like long division-

The thoughtful ones, yeah.

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