I’m not anti-math. We need it. It’s powerful. It predicts many things successfully and will continue to do so long after all of us are dead and buried (or scattered).
But there will come a day where we will need to move past spherical horses. Let me find that joke.
Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, “I have the solution, but it only works in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum”.
I’m not a “point-like” thing; there _are_ no point-like things.
It’s a useful analogy; a substitution.
It’s awesome and amazing and deserves our every respect, but not worship. We’re moving towards worship of mathematics as a society and I’m just hoping to play some part in keeping things reasonable