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Isn't this essentially Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe hypothesis?

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• codeflo 3y ago
  I believe so, yes. I think it's somewhat likely that mathematically minded people would come up with that idea independently -- it's essentially Platonism taken to its logical conclusion. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...
  • kirill5pol 3y ago
    Yep, had the same thoughts a few years ago too. Basically if you accept mathematical realism as an axiom, pretty often you get to this idea
    • omnicognate 3y ago
      Had this thought in the bath ~25 years ago. Not an idea you can actually do anything with, though, other than go 'huh, interesting' and add more hot water.
• iahwrites 3y ago
  OP here... yeah it sure looks like it is! I hadn't heard of it before, and will need to do some more reading, but at a high-level it does look to be the same line of thinking.
  • Trasmatta 3y ago
    Cool! He has some books on the topic that you'd be interested in.
  • ttctciyf 3y ago
    You might also like to check out Greg Egan's Permutation City[0] which (in the form of entertaining scifi) presents some related arguments about the need for a computational substrate, or lack thereof. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
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