It’s fascinating how the abstraction of the concept of number—perhaps born from something as simple as comparing and generalizing two consecutive actions—could eventually lead to a profound unfolding of calculation, culminating in modern technologies rooted in mathematics (and logic).
There must have been that initial moment of discovery—when this numerical abstraction revealed itself. Like a quantum is intrinsic to an atom, so too is quantity (number) intrinsic to every object. Every thing carries within it this element—its “numerical being.” Yet this is hidden from the eye. It is an abstraction—residing in the mind, in that invisible field. The Reason works there, where everything it meets is, in some way, classified and sorted.
By the way, the mind as the space, and the reason as the main operator.
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