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>No.
Yes. Imagine a mountain. This mountain can't be found anywhere in this world. Yet it exists.
Suppose you need to describe this mountain. For this, your body would have to act in accordance with its structure. Which means the mountain, wherever it is, would have to influence your body. And such influence requires energy.
See? For you to describe the mountain, some energy would have to flow from wherever the mountain is into your body. Energy, whose properties are decided by the environment of that... Location. As easy as.
>Then you're agreeing that math is just an idea with reality independent of human minds.
Agreeing? I can't even understand what this sentence is supposed to mean.
But no. If you define math as an ability possessed by a human brain, dependent on its structure for its existence, then it isn't "just an idea."
>What I said was that if you burn all the books and erase all the hard drives, people wouldn't lose the ability to do math.
But their ability would be greatly reduced. Meaning you've damaged math by destroying a part of its body.
And if you damage the parts of their brains that were marked by math, their ability would be completely erased. Meaning you've killed math by fully destroying its body.
Even if it can be built again in the future. Similar to how a chair can be destroyed. Then built again in the future.
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