So we could have evolved to put 3 apples onto a table, count them and sum them up to 4 apples? Humans are born with sight, does that imply that light evolved by natural selection? And I don’t know what makes you think that arithmetic is not complex, when indeed not even an infinite set of axioms can fully describe it. Also arithmetic is irreducible complex, eliminate the number three and all of arithmetic falls apart. The patterns that emerge just from the existence of the natural numbers are infinitely. Anyway, I thought the quote is food for thought, so I posted it. The book is a good read, highly recommended.
So we could have evolved to put 3 apples onto a table, count them and sum them up to 4 apples? Humans are born with sight, does that imply that light evolved by natural selection? And I don’t know what makes you think that arithmetic is not complex, when indeed not even an infinite set of axioms can fully describe it. Also arithmetic is irreducible complex, eliminate the number three and all of arithmetic falls apart. The patterns that emerge just from the existence of the natural numbers are infinitely. Anyway, I thought the quote is food for thought, so I posted it. The book is a good read, highly recommended.