This might strike you as crazy, but please hear me out. Humans are adept at creating systems to describe natural phenomenon. We're also adept at adopting aspect

This might strike you as crazy, but please hear me out. Humans are adept at creating systems to describe natural phenomenon. We're also adept at adopting aspects of those systems as tools to further our development. We do this on a conscious and sub-conscious level. It wouldn't be, at all, surprising to find something like Hamming codes inside the geometry describing physics. Physics is not alone; DNA also contains some type of error correction. Then you have to take a step further back and realize that mathematics is just a system of description for our world. That's probably the sloppiest use of the word "just" you'll use today, but there's an important underlying point. It's a "chicken or the egg" question. Did our tendencies as humans to understand and describe systems give rise to our own mathematical models, or are the mathematical models some greater basis of our reality? The conversation very quickly becomes metaphysical, moving more in to philosophy and theology than mathematics and physics.