> there's a common unjustified stance that mathematics is not only capable of describing the universe, but that it's somehow behind its operation. Even further

> there's a common unjustified stance that mathematics is not only capable of describing the universe, but that it's somehow behind its operation. Even further than that, I often run into smart people with the view that reality is somehow made of mathematics. And then there are these common unjustified dismissals of the idea. The reason people assume math describes the universe is that it does a very good job of it. It allows us to predict the future better than other tools. There are different reasons for believing in the mathematical universe hypothesis and some of them I find quite compelling. Maybe you can't see it because you are missing those concepts in your internal language? I would say your post is a good example of your main point.