This blog post from Stephen Wolfram which was featured on HN a few days ago seems relevant: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/05/how-inevitable-is-the-c

This blog post from Stephen Wolfram which was featured on HN a few days ago seems relevant: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/05/how-inevitable-is-the-concept-of-numbers/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/05/how-inevitable-i...