The "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics isn't a mystery. It's a selection process obscured by survivorship bias — and confusing the two has quietly broken physics. In 1960, Eugene Wigner published The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. The puzzle, as he framed it: why do abstract mathematical structures — built in the pure air of human imagination, with no physical purpose in mind — map so precisely onto the laws of nature? Wigner foun