Something Unexpected That May Help Some Common Chronic Medical Conditions

There's something really interesting and potentially important happening in the space of people suffering from chronic medical conditions that modern medicine provides no good solutions for, such as Long COVID, IBS, functional dyspepsia, fibromyalgia, chronic back or joint pain without injury/disease, ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, PTLDS/Chronic Lyme disease, and so on. I'm talking here specifically about people where all other reasonable explanations for their conditions (e.g., cancer, injury, a...
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Are Mathematical Truths Discovered Or Invented?

It’s long been debated whether mathematical truths are “discovered” or “invented”. The answer becomes clearer when you dig into what math actually is. In my opinion, math is a language for describing patterns, relationships and rules. It’s just like any language except (1) it’s far more precise than normal language, and (2) unlike human languages, its domain is limited to only describing patterns and relationships and rules. In English, you can talk about birds AND equations related to bird ...
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