Russ
Who or what created the system that we are a part of? Who or what created the thing that can be symbolically represented with man-made mathematical and logical symbols?
Obviously, the standalone self-sufficient real-world system that we are a part of has necessarily created its own categories, mathematical relationships, and numbers.
But the logical connective/ algorithmic symbols represent something about the inherent, uncreated, character of the world, where the inherent character of the world is creativity and consciousness of what has been created.