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> However now a neo-Pythagorian doctrine is emerging, according to which everything is 0/1 bits, and the world is built entirely out of digital information Can
by nyc111 2mo ago
> However now a neo-Pythagorian doctrine is emerging, according to which everything is 0/1 bits, and the world is built entirely out of digital information
Can this be true? DNA is the information system of living creatures and as far as I know, it is not coded with 0s and 1s. So, how can we justify that "the world is built entirely out of digital information"?
- atoav 2mo agoFor all I, a Victorian everyman, know the world is built from small pistons, gears and pulleys. Every age has their technology which they will project onto the world. A century ago one may have started to talks about everything being electrical wires and switches.
- d_tr 2mo agoIt doesn't matter whether the model assumes bits, pulleys, elves or whatever, as long as it does a better job at describing physical reality than whatever exists at the time anyway. People will try and very probably succeed in providing alternative formalism anyway. All that matters is whether it facilitates reasoning towards the goal.