A Hypothesis in Simplicity for the Mechanism that Generates Equations in the Brain

Abstract: Numbers and equations are a product of the mind. They are not the outside world, but are a model of it because both systems, internal and external, are independently generated according to the same principles, even the same mechanisms. Using arguments, some old, some new, I propose here that integers in the mind and the external world are generated by a mechanism of resonation. Equations are generated under Newton's 3rd law, “equal and opposite reaction”, by attaching symbols to the symmetrically opposite points of a growing water crystal at body temperature. This hypothesis re-directs the study of the brain from chaos and complexity to simplicity, and the planning of equations in the action of a single cell.