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I beg to differ. Math typically requires abstract thought, symbols, and humans to produce and enjoy it. Especially the latter is quite a dependency.

We could reduce the requirements down to an implementation of a Turing machine, or something similar. (For the argument I simply ignore whether the machine is conscious -- that seems irrelevant in this context.)

That still requires some kind of discrete switch, which may seem fairly minimal to a human observer, but in reality consists of tens of thousands of atoms to operate. Atoms used to be simple, but turn out to be quite complex as well.

Representing, say, a circle in a fairly minimal system such as this would probably require the cooperation of millions of atoms.



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