• Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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    I would say there is no language of nature; there are things that happen, and we can approximate what happens using math. Math can be used to describe basically anything, so the fact that we can understand these things through numbers is not extraordinary.

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        I guess I don’t know what you mean by that. My point was that nature doesn’t speak in any language. There are things that happen do to processes and conditions, we can describe those processes and conditions, we can use them to predict future conditions with math. But the base reality is that things simply exist.

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          Art and humour are inevitable consequences of sentient animals having the capability to create them.

          I think of it like squares and rectangles. Everything created by humans is natural, but only a fraction of natural things are created by humans.

          There is a natural progression from some particles colliding at the beginning of the universe all the way to low effort memes being posted on Lemmy.