I feel I should toss up XKCD's golden ratio overlays[1] but I think it's really a chicken or the egg kind of argument- did processes involuntarily use math to c

I feel I should toss up XKCD's golden ratio overlays[1] but I think it's really a chicken or the egg kind of argument- did processes involuntarily use math to come to these arrangements, or did we apply math to understand them? [1]https://xkcd.com/spiral/ https://xkcd.com/spiral/