blue trane's Journal: The Road to Reality

To mathematicians (at least to most of them, as far as I can make out), mathematics is not just a cultural activity that we have ourselves created, but it has a life of its own, and much of it finds an amazing harmony with the physical universe. - Roger Penrose, "The Road to Reality", page xix

Same with natural language (of which mathematics is a subset). I have often felt that natural language has a life of its own; indeed, I am trying to prove it can exist outside of humans by programming a bot to speak it.

Natural language is our first model of reality. Much of it finds an amazing harmony not only with the physical universe, but the mental, biological, virtual as well...