No - it's not simply a matter of it being too hard to understand - it has to do with whether the action was evaluated by a sentient being. Sure your decisions are the result of causal processes - everything is - but your causal processes involve a highly sophisticated set of evalations relative to various goals, etc. etc. dropping the hot potato not so much. Free will is compatible with determinism if you look at the right way.

Certainly the roots of mathematics are in practical rules for counting, keeping track of time, dividing up land, etc. but at some point (a slippery slope, really - you could say Euclid was already moving in this direction) math became pretty much an a priori discipline - particularly in the last few centuries. Group theory, Cantor's transfinite numbers, topology - none of these things were motivated by immediate practical concerns.

You might as well say that since cavemen started out painting bison and deer that all art is representational.

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