The effectiveness of math is reasonable only to the extent that the assumption that math is taken to be a discovery is reasonable. Starting with the metaphysical assumption that the Abstract Realm of Mathematics (ARM) ‘predates’ the beginning of the physical universe, this leads to a logical progression from abstract logical supervenience and emergence through physical supervenience and emergence. Starting from the premise that space and time are as discrete as mass and energy, it would naturally follow that these building blocks of nature would follow the mathematical logic of all that is countable. The universe did not spring from nothing. It had an infinite number of steps to develop its potential configurations. Teleological bias enters as the conjugate attribute of existential threat experienced by any critically self-organized complex adaptive system with skin in the game.
James Gordon Stanfield