> Penrose sums up this connection beautifully in his opus "The Road to Reality": “The laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to

> Penrose sums up this connection beautifully in his opus "The Road to Reality": “The laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.” This circular thinking breaks down at "mathematics can encode in a succinct and inspiring way the laws of physics". The laws of physics are partitioned into at least three different sub-theories, none of which have been successfully encoded with another sub-theory using mathematics, i.e. General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the laws arising from the directedness of Time. (That last one could include the Theory of Consciousness if entropy causes brain memories, and memories cause consciousness.) Perhaps because physics produces consciousness, and consciousness produces mathematics, mathematics can never describe a united theory of physics.