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How do you know the rules of physics aren't encoded anywhere? Clearly they have to be defined somewhere - or at least somehow - or they wouldn't be rules. The
by TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
How do you know the rules of physics aren't encoded anywhere?
Clearly they have to be defined somewhere - or at least somehow - or they wouldn't be rules.
They may not defined anywhere we can access, never mind change. But that's a different problem.
- iainmerrick 4y agoYou're paraphrasing the last paragraph of the parent.
- tsimionescu 4y agoSure, we can't discount that possibility. But, as far as we know, the laws of physics are not encoded anywhere, they just exist in an abstract sense. This is similar to the axioms of, say, Euclidean geometry: they exist, but are not part of the system that they "govern", circles and squares don't contain the laws that define them.