Jon, it could be the other way around: It is not that objects follow our math rules, it is that the rules are tailored to the objects. We definitely are quite advanced in that domain, I guess. But coming back to the original post, we see that a lot in biology. The same molecule has different effects on different cell types having the same signaling machinery. The cell type-dependent effects are unexplained in general - this is just the way it is...

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