Lyte
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PS: Mathematics does not reside outside the physical world either.
For example: If I have 5 bananas and I eat one, I'm left with 4. Nothing abstract about that mutley.
Math is an abstract construct which relies outside physical world. Because math is objective it has a lot of uses in the physical world, but it is a pure product of thought. Strictly speaking, any correspondence between mathematical constructs and reality is pure coincidence. There is no inherent relationship with math and physics. This comes evident when you study pure mathematical constructs, let say infinite dimensional Lie groups. How do you build one with bananas?
"as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
You can write down a number, another, and do math with them. You can replace the numbers with bananas and do the same thing.
You can write philosophy with letters, you can replace the letters with letters made out of whole bananas.
You can test your philosophy with banana letters, and come to some conclusion with banana letters.
If bananas is all what it takes to transport something outside physical world to reality, then we can conclude that - yes we can answer questions of morality with science, we just need a shitload of bananas.
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