I keep on thinking that everything around us is basically just information. Be it DNA, atoms, or spacetime itself. And math is the set of rules that explain the interaction, flow and existence of this information. We did not uncover all the rules yet. Does this make sense?
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> can math be though of as a set of rules that describe everything that exist?
Not really, if nothing else because of the fact that maths also describes things that *don’t* exist.
Maths is the creative exploration of patterns and rules.
It has useful applications to the real world (which seems to run on maths) but is far broader. It is about playing around with rules to see what patterns emerge.
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