{"id":169895,"date":"2023-08-17T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mathematics-has-a-biological-origin-study-reveals"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:27:30","slug":"mathematics-has-a-biological-origin-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mathematics-has-a-biological-origin-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics Has a Biological Origin, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematics-has-a-biological-origin-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4.<\/p>\n<p>But surprisingly, we don\u2019t know <em>why<\/em> it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/fulltext\/2023-84614-001.pdf?sr=1\">arithmetic has biological roots<\/a> and is a natural consequence of how perception of the world around us is organised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don\u2019t know why it\u2019s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arithmetic has biological roots and is a natural consequence of how perception of the world [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}