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This is effectively Max Tegemark’s TOE, the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis https://en.m.wik

This is effectively Max Tegemark’s TOE, the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypoth... Tegmark's MUH is: Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.[3] That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics (specifically, a mathematical structure). Mathematical existence equals physical existence, and all structures that exist mathematically exist physically as well. Observers, including humans, are "self-aware substructures (SASs)". In any mathematical structure complex enough to contain such substructures, they "will subjectively perceive themselves as existing in a physically 'real' world".[4]

phkahler 8y ago
Well said. In my previous comment I deleted a paragraph where I wrote something like: If there exists a mathematical model/definition of our universe - weather that has been discovered by humans or not - that is sufficient to ensure that it exists. While I have read of the "existence" of mathematical objects I was not aware of anyone writing that we live in such a thing - I figured it must be out there somewhere. Thanks for the link and providing a name for the concept.