Consider the essential fact that our minds necessarily focus on forms, because much of reality is moving at the speed of light. So we have to extract these fairly stable concepts, forms, ideas, etc, in order to make sense of reality.
The real issue is why this isn't extremely obvious to most people.
For instance, our modern religion is math, because it extracts reductionist, repeating patterns from the processes generating them, as our linear culture tries chasing down that end point. Than many in the field seem to believe these are foundational, rather than emergent, from the processes generating them.
There are no forms in the void and by infinity, they are blurred back together. So it is a network of relationships, fluctuating in the middle. Waves, rising and falling.
The problem with math is that if the patterns are correlated, it's analogy. If they are causal, it's physics. If they are mixed up, it's numerology.
As Emerson said, "We are but thickened light."
Keep in mind as well, that all we think we know about light, that it's particles, waves, has a constant speed, breaks down into a spectrum, etc, is just the information about it and how we interpret that information is then filtered through our own perceptual lenses.
For example, the assumption that everything is ultimately quantized, going back to the Ancient Greek idea of atoms, means the only way intergalactic light can redshift is by the source receding, because these would only be single spectrum photons we detect. Yet "packets" will redshift over distance, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster. So if we were to consider the quantization of light could be due to how our material devices can absorb and thus measure light, rather than fundamental to light itself, we could consider the possibility we are sampling a wave front and cosmic redshift is an optical effect. Which would negate the current Big Bang model.
All of our intellectual evolution has had to progress like this, by filtering what we see through what our minds already assume, until the models no longer fit and we need to reset and reconsider.
When the narrative breaks down, some will see it as opportunity, but most will cling desperately to the old.,
