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That 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 mathemati
by ignostic 13y ago
That 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.