Mind generates set containing two parts, the set and the set containing the empty set. Numbers have causes - the algorithms that perform the operations on the sets. Numbers have parts and aspects. The number 1 is defined as the set which contains the empty set and so on. But in the final analysis the entire number system has been generated by the play of mind on emptiness, in the complete absence of the need to refer to any material thing, or things, which are being counted.
Numbers are fundamentally devoid of self-existent inherent 'Platonic' existence.
Mathematics arises out of mind and emptiness. Physics arises out of mathematics. The philosophical implication of these findings is that mind ontologically precedes number. In other words in the foundations of Being, mind is more fundamental than number. It is important to emphasise that the mathematical equations of quantum physics do not describe actual existence - they predict the potential for existence.