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 Originally Posted by mojo
How can you prove that any number is a non-sapient concept?
By proving that photons come in quanta? Humans didn't invent mathematics, we discovered it. Photons, and indeed all energy, comes in integer values. So the universe created the number line from 1 to however many energy quanta there are in the entire universe. That mathematical framework exists without life observing it and describing it. We might have expanded on it and there's an argument that fractions, zero, negative numbers and complex numbers are sapient, but the number 1, and multiples of it, are not.
That wall of math is a bit much for me to take in, sorry. I wish I could follow it but I can't.
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