AnotherIdiot comments on The Emergence of Math - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnotherIdiot 02 November 2012 10:02:45AM 0 points [-]

Out there in reality, there are just atoms.

I know. But it's easier to talk about apples than atoms. And the apples are just another level of abstractions. From atoms emerge apples, and from apples emerge [natural] numbers.