I can readily understand the perspective, at least as far as the a priori reason being hard to discern or articulate. But I don't hold the perspective. Like Teg

I can readily understand the perspective, at least as far as the a priori reason being hard to discern or articulate. But I don't hold the perspective. Like Tegmark, I believe the reason math works is that the universe is math. (And it follows that mathematicians who believe their work is unconnected in principle from the physical world, are being myopic or escapist.) Working on a rather advanced procedurally generated game world for a long time has only strengthened this belief. The world looks quite natural, but it is literally a visualization of an ordinary integer hash function being computed many millions of times. Exploring the Mandelbrot set intensely, has the same effect on me, and that math is much simpler. I'm not trying to assume these analogies are tautologies, but when I'm inside the game world and it looks both totally natural, and also exactly like my hash function, all I can say is it's very suggestive.