[unabst]

One-ness is a physical property and that's why we can see it. The magic happens when we call them all one, give it a symbol, and make them all equal. Now "one" has a unique existence of its own on a piece of paper on a mathematicians desk, scribbled alongside other unique symbols, whose relationships come complete with proofs. And the only question then is whether what was scribbled says something true, as in, something that aligns with the reality it came from, because that would make it useful.

Math is a map. Maps are only real insofar as being a map, and only useful insofar as being true.

The drawing of the streets may be drawn with your pencil from memory, but the truth your friend relies on to get them where they need to go is real. The paper and pencil are real. And the physics of the informative truth that transcends from the streets to the paper is also real. Computers are the machines we've built based on the physics of logic, abstraction, and meaning. A computational value is something that means something to something else.

[teucris]

> One-ness is a physical property and that's why we can see it.

We can see it, but does that make it a physical property or something that we impose upon the universe?

For the rest of your statement, I don’t know if we can easily define “true” or “useful”. Epistemology has been working on those concepts for a long, long time, and I don’t know if they’ve made much progress recently.

[unabst]

One-ness is a shape of a thing, much like triangle-ness or circle-ness. Shapes are physical, but they can be copied, unlike the things themselves. And when meaning is associated with a shape, that meaning can then be copied and read. So we can take "one-ness" which is physically measurable and identifiable, associate a new shape such as "1", and now we have a shape with meaning detached from its origin that we can copy, read, and communicate. The source is still reality, and this physical mechanism is what makes communication possible. Gather enough of these symbols and you have a language. Combine these symbols and you have a statement. Have anything that reads and reacts to statements and you have consequences. From DNA to protein, from grocery list to grocery bag, from tweet to insurrection.

Any combination of words can form a statement. So someone comes along and says let's agree on grammar. Then someone comes along and says let's confirm with nature whether statements actually align with nature before we call it a fact. This is modern science and the scientific truth. Scientifically, nature is the single source of truth and is all true. False only exists in the gap between a statement and nature.

[unabst]

(con't) An abstraction is the smallest unit of reason, and logic creates the desired cause and effect as each truth flows through the system.