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This philosophy doesn't sit well with me. Physics at a particle or even mass scale can be described mathematically, I'll give you that. That said, if you are to
by ignostic 13y ago
This philosophy doesn't sit well with me. Physics at a particle or even mass scale can be described mathematically, I'll give you that. That said, if you are to understand the relationship between one particle and another, you need some way to explain that relationship.
For example, the pull of one celestial body of matter on another (really the sum of particles, but let's simplify) can be explained with math. But you cannot communicate the RELATIONSHIP between the two without understanding the concept of gravity and space-time. It would be claiming the universe is all 1s and 0s, ignoring the fact that there must be a en/decoding method - a meaning to the numbers - for them to make any sense.
The weaker claim that the universe CAN BE computed is to me fairly obvious, but that adds little to any discussion among those who believe in causality.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoWhat exactly is this "relationship"? Quarks dancing around in fields are quarks dancing around in fields, whether they together make planets or plants or something else is irrelevant to the laws of physics.
- aa0 13y agoI think you are misunderstanding what digital physics proposes. Yes the information is 0s and 1s but the actual program does not have to be. Physics is modeled by information and inherently seems to be connected to physical values. Seems logical to me.
- ignostic 13y agoThat may well be, as I'm not a physicist or mathematician. I take issue with the claim that the universe and the interactions therein can be described mathematically. That seems to imply that you can explain it to a human mathematically. Without context, concept, and relationship, how could this be?
- aa0 13y agoMathematics is just another flavor of language. English, French, Math...what's to doubt? Math just requires some extra context in the form of natural speech because it is a more narrow subset. It isn't limited, just less coherent when variables are used without prior definition. It's amusing that you find it hard for the universe to be described mathematically when physics does just that. I should note that digital physics does not imply that physics are purely mathematical..they can be procedural -- ie. akin to a C program. When you get down to it though..whatever is doing the higher level computation, the processor, could be accomplishing the instruction set using purely boolean logic.
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- chriswarbo 13y agoSomething could be described Mathematically without it being explainable to a human: it could be vastly more complex than any person could ever comprehend. For example, every chess position can be enumerated, but no human can ever enumerate them all; although a Turing Machine could, given enough time and tape.