Humans evolved by natural selection, of course. In the previous 4.5 million years language and our minds co-evolved through a process of imitation and sharing w

Humans evolved by natural selection, of course. In the previous 4.5 million years language and our minds co-evolved through a process of imitation and sharing what works. Through this processes humans evolved to recognize mind-like patterns within and throughout the universe. Mathematics? Silly but useful patterns formalized through language. Time? Invented in the image of mathematics to be useful to arrive at dinner before the beast is eaten. From this I conclude all of the most wonderfully clever ideas of humanity, my personal favorite is semiotics, are also invented. Thus, to argue if they are true, valid, etc. is folly, because they're all born of, and in the fashion of the human mind. With such great diversity of minds and experiences, what is good and useful will depend on complex patterns forced into ad hoc linear order (one damn thing after another). I have read stories about the great minds of the twentieth-century who tried to standardize and systematize mathematics, and failed. And yet in a mere 56 years after we went to the moon and back using our mathematics. Not true as in 'eternal' or perfect, but damn useful.