Is our universe mathematics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

>>9383945
Math is just an abstract language.

Sounds like an unfalsifiable hypothesis, desu.

>>9383945
Mathematics lets us glimpse at the true forms of the universe.

>>9383945
we have no access to the noumenon, only to representations of the noumenon. A deaf mute blind man might as well perceive the universe as an ensemble of tactile and olfactory sensations, just as the mathematician sees it as mathematical

>>9383945
Using math to try and unravel the secrets of the universe is pointless. You're nothing more than a wizard using runes

Interesting concept, but it requires some concept of self-consistency for mathematical structures, that's well beyond the current understanding of mathematics.

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>>9384342
t. Pseuds who never touched math higher than 1st semester level

>>9383945
About 40% of the way through this book right now. Really interesting and very accessible for anybody. At the very least is has given me a much greater appreciation of science and math than I had before reading it. Highly reccomend it.

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>>9383945
I recently started looking into this stuff in relation to some academic writing. Tegmark's not really saying much new as far as I can tell. Structural realism/causal structuralism/dispositional monism or whatever you want to call it has been tossed around for a couple of decades now.

Intuitively to me, it seems like a bag of wank but that's just from my biases and having read some stuff on the regress problems associated with the view. I suppose my intuitions fall in line with the notion that “a world of [only] powers is too insubstantial to command belief”; it seems to me something must actually instantiate the structure, and thus reality can't just be structure per se.

>tfw plato was right all along

If the universe is pure mathematics, how does the author explain a posteriori reasoning?

>>9384395
Please tell me how you have time to learn math as well as philosophy while working a 9-5 job? Would love to hear your secret formula.

>>9385088
Complex mathematical structures can have simpler approximative descriptions. A posteriori reasoning is used to obtain those. True mathematical basis of our world may in principle be obtained with a priori reasoning alone, but humans seem to be too dumb for such a task, so we use a chain of simpler models (physical) to get closer to it instead.