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Humans are amazing but the Universe is not magic it is mathematical

• gffrd 4y ago
  Are you saying the universe is math?
  • zargon 4y ago
    There was an article posted here arguing that recently. Something along the lines of "Why does anything exist?"
    • gffrd 4y ago
      Thanks for the pointer! Search turned up this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416003 "Why does anything exist?" … and also these: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-m... https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/is-the-universe-actually-made-of-math https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/is-the-univers... Looks like it's reading time!
  • eointierney 4y ago
    Actually yes, I think it is, though not exactly in the Max Tegmark sense (he's much more competent than I). Indeed, I don't think it could be anything other than math as it would be inconsistent (Daithi, where are you, you took me out for dinner and we had a great chat (intoduced me to Haskell he did )). To be clearer, I don't think physical reality is math as we currently understand it, but if there's an aspect of reality that is non-mathematical and you can prove it you've won every significant prize available and started a conceptual revolution without comparison (no, human notions such as "love", beautiful as they are, don't count as we can't begin to mathematise these anthropomorphisations). We need to study more math :)