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by criddell 3865 days ago
> I would put words in whatever order was most useful to them to employ for the construction and manipulation of tables. Anything else would be meaningless

Is your objection to the mathematical universe mostly that it's not useful to know everything is just mathematics? That our reality is essentially the same as if it were a simulation is just trivia but doesn't help you make a table?
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Retra 3865 days ago
Pretty much. You say it's all mathematics, I'll say it's a simulation. Or maybe it's a dream. Or a the manifestation of another being's will. Or something completely incomprehensible.

Why should anyone care that it's mathematics? It's certainly not like any mathematics that we know; we can't do it some other way if we don't understand it. It's too big to fit in a brain, and too complex to simplify accurately. Since we don't understand its axioms, how do we know they form a mathematical structure?

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criddell 3865 days ago
> Why should anyone care that it's mathematics?

Well, if the universe is a simulation, then you can start poking around for the limits of the simulation and finding out new things is something that lots of people enjoy.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...

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