Experiencing the World

I've been meditating on a handful of topics for many years and I think I'm finally able to reduce a diverse set of ideas, observations, and gut feelings to a sentence or two that explains what I'm after.

I'm interested in the paradox that nature does not run on formal language, that is, mathematics does not govern the world, nor do our brains speak a formal language (which is why I don't think present day Turing Machine style computers will ever be intelligent) yet human beings were able to devise formal symbolic languages to create an algorithmic model for the natural world--physics for example.

How can a formal language be created within a universe that runs on poetry?

For many, many people, various formal language models of the world completely supplant the real world. (think The Matrix) For most, the formal language that obsesses them isn't physics, or mathematical models of gravity, waves, or particles, but financial ledgers and commercial transactions. The signs and symbols of money and imaginary numerical attributes of things in a marketplace dominate their mind. (Think There Will Be Blood)

From the mythmademan perspective, the computer is the DISEMBODIED MATH GOD MADE REAL. The architects of the modern computer brought their god into the world, they opened a portal to the other side for their egregore master to cross. And now, perhaps, they strive diligently to make themselves more like him, that is, to become creatures of the formal language themselves by shedding their analog, messy skins.

I've been instinctively moving the opposite way in my personal life, trying to shed the formal language skin of physics and the ledgers. To that end, we recently moved to a house with a relatively large parcel of land (15+ acres). Most of the property is wooded and there is a lot of variation in the landscape in the woods. There are streams, bogs, ravines, meadows, and ponds. A fairly fit person can walk the perimeter of the property, navigating all kinds of obstacles, and doing about 400 feet of climbing in about 30-40 minutes, or walk end to end along paths in just a few minutes. It would probably take a lifetime, though, to get to know every single corner of the place. There's practically infinite variation there, plus it changes all the time. Wildlife cycles through the property through the days, different birds are active through the seasons, and the vegetation ebbs and flows with the sun.

If one were to "manage" the property for a solely commercial purpose, e.g. agriculture, or in our case a tree farm, that is a finance-economic purpose, a fairly standard method for doing that would be to simplify the place, render it uniform--cut down all the competing trees for example so that nature would conform more closely to a ledger book.

I'm currently trying to figure out my role as a human steward of nature when I've rejected the disembodied math god.