Mathematics (eBook)

Mathematics is fascinating and undoubtedly one of the most amazing products of the human mind. It alone manages to develop an abstract, self-contained system of logic, which has universal validity through the always identical numbers or letters. This gives us a creepy whiff of infinity. If we could rewrite our world into a mathematical one, we would also have solved the answer to the question of where from and where to. That is why it seems so obvious to concentrate entirely on this path, as if we had no other choice. In the past, the existence of humans was proof that God must exist; today, not only humans but all life proves that mathematics, like a god, must exist. The physical laws of matter, indeed of the whole world, must all be subject to mathematics, because only it contains infinity and can claim a position of absoluteness.
But just as we have given up on a personal, all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing individual God and believe instead in nature and evolution, so we must probably, with heavy hearts, rid ourselves of the divinity of mathematical formulae. The system of mathematics is good, how good we see in technology, in computers and our superiority in Everything on Earth. It catapults us to the pinnacle of creation, but it also makes us very lonely in this universe. It makes us something that may only exist once in a galaxy, indeed perhaps something unique in the whole universe. The probability of higher life arising is then so frighteningly small that the only way out for it to arise at all lies in the infinity of multiverses.