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Not everybody is convinced that reality deserves to be on a pedestal separate from mathematics. Perhaps the only thing distinguishing our reality from mathemati
by wcoenen 15y ago
Not everybody is convinced that reality deserves to be on a pedestal separate from mathematics. Perhaps the only thing distinguishing our reality from mathematical structures is that we are part of it. All mathematical structures with self-aware substructures (such as ourselves) appear to be "reality" from the point of view of its inhabitants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_ensemble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_ensemble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism
- protez 15y agoPresented in the criticism sections of your mentioned Wikipedia articles, Gödel's incompleteness theorem is there as a strong rejection to mathematics = reality argument. No mathematics is self-contained, which means it's incomplete to describe the totality of reality. We shouldn't forget that mathematics is an invention of mortal human beings. For the dwellers in quantum space, the mathematical fundamental might be totally different from our one.