Michael Levin

There's no fact of physics that determines this.

There's no evolutionary history.

It's not like we selected this based on some, you know, from a larger set over time.

Where does this come from?

Or the fact that

Think about the way that biology exploits these things.

Imagine a world in which the highest fitness belong to a certain kind of triangle, right?

So evolution cranks a bunch of generations and it gets the first angle right and cranks a bunch more generations, gets a second angle right.

Now there's something amazing that happens.

It doesn't need to look for the third angle because you already know.

If you know two, you get this magical free gift from geometry that says, well, I already know what the third one should be.

You don't have to go look for it.

Or as evolution, if you invent a voltage-gated ion channel, which is basically a transistor, and you can make a logic gate, then all the truth tables and the fact that NAND is special and all these other things

You don't have to evolve those things.

You get those for free.

You inherit those.

Where do all those things live?

These mathematical truths that you come across that you don't have any choice about.

Once you've committed to certain axioms, there's a whole bunch of other stuff that is now just, it is what it is.

And so what I'm saying is, and this is, this is what, what, what Pythagoras was, was saying, I think that there is a whole space of these kinds of, uh, truths.