Mathematical reality exists independently in a Platonic realm: mathematical truths are discovered rather than invented, they exist prior to and independent of human minds, and their truths are there to be found if we are lucky.

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Speaker

Roger Penrose

Evidence Quote

the mathematical world exists independently of us...it's more like a discovery than...an intervention...the truths are there...independently of us

Source

Asking a Theoretical Physicist About the Physics of Consciousness | Roger Penrose | EP 244Jordan B Peterson
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:07:02 AM

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