Where Mathematics Comes From

This thread in Slashdot:
Physicists War Over a Unified Theory

Had to post this:
Physics is based on observation and on mathematics. And anyone without overweening ego issues can have the courage to admit that mathematics is particular and specific to our cognitive, embodied perception.

Platonic ideals are as likely as Great Sky Gods, or GUTs. There are no Natural Laws, but instead narrative descriptions of the world. These stories use metaphor and analogy, and their popularity waxes and wanes along with the lives and influence of their storytellers. Blend Kuhn (anti) and Kuhn (pro) and Foucault with a dash of Popper. And don’t skimp on the hermeneutics.

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

I blame a bagel and cream cheese lunchtime high.