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by dr_dshiv 1802 days ago
"Gibberish": Plato, Russell, Penrose and Tegmark?

Made of math is as Aristotle noted: "All is number" — Platonic-Pythagoreanism was at the heart of classical civilization and the enlightenment.

I can only suppose that there is something about these ideas that deeply disturbs or even frightens. But I wouldn't dismiss them as gibberish.