Okay. I tried to respond here, but I’m not qualified to do so. I’ll just state what I’m thinking, and then, if you could point out what I might be confused about, I’ll leave it there and might go read some books.
I think this is a confusion of definitions. If every universe is described in logic, then the physical laws are a subset of those. So, logic describes everything that is consistently possible and then whichever universe we’re in is a subset. Logic describes how our universe works. So the Great Reductionist Project is defining which branch of logical description space we are, and showing on the way that no part of the universe is not describable within logic.
No, if you buy a book on logic, it doens’t describe the universe.To get a description of our universe in mathematical/logical terms, you have to add in empirical information. There is a convenient
shorthand for that: physics. Physics described how our universe works.
So the Great Reductionist Project is .. showing on the way that no part of the universe is not describable within logic.
Huh? How can it show that? Whether there is part of our universe that is not describable by logic is an empirical claim. Science could encouner somethig irreducible are any point.
Okay. I tried to respond here, but I’m not qualified to do so. I’ll just state what I’m thinking, and then, if you could point out what I might be confused about, I’ll leave it there and might go read some books.
I think this is a confusion of definitions. If every universe is described in logic, then the physical laws are a subset of those. So, logic describes everything that is consistently possible and then whichever universe we’re in is a subset. Logic describes how our universe works. So the Great Reductionist Project is defining which branch of logical description space we are, and showing on the way that no part of the universe is not describable within logic.
yes, largely.
No, if you buy a book on logic, it doens’t describe the universe.To get a description of our universe in mathematical/logical terms, you have to add in empirical information. There is a convenient shorthand for that: physics. Physics described how our universe works.
Huh? How can it show that? Whether there is part of our universe that is not describable by logic is an empirical claim. Science could encouner somethig irreducible are any point.