{"id":172562,"date":"2023-09-22T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:26:01","slug":"arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception","title":{"rendered":"Arithmetic Has a Biological Origin\u2014It\u2019s an Expression in Symbols of the \u2018Deep Structure\u2019 of Our Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception3.jpg\"><\/a><\/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 organized.<\/p>\n<p>Our results explain why arithmetic is true and suggest that mathematics is a realization in symbols of the fundamental nature and creativity of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the miraculous <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/11\/25\/pythagoras-revenge-humans-didnt-invent-mathematics-its-what-the-world-is-made-of\/\">correspondence between mathematics and physical reality<\/a> that has been a source of wonder from the ancient Greeks to the present\u2014as explored in astrophysicist Mario Livio\u2019s book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Mathematician-Mario-Livio-ebook\/dp\/B004NNVFW2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RR9V2WHD5FK3&keywords=is+god+a+mathematician+by+mario+livio&qid=1691995780&sprefix=Livio+is+god+a+ma%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1&tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Is God a Mathematician?<\/a><\/em>\u2014suggests the mind and world are part of a common unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 around us is organized. Our results explain why arithmetic is true and suggest that mathematics is a realization in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172562","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}