Thanks for the paper! I have started to read this and am admittedly overwhelmed. I think I understand the concept, but without the ability to understand the math, I feel limited in my scope to comprehend this. Would you be able to give my a brief summary of why we should accept MUH and why it is controversial?
We should believe MUH because it’s mathematically impossible to consistently believe in anything that’s not maths, because beliefs are made of maths and can’t refer to things that are not maths.
It’ controversial because humans are crazy, and can’t ignore things genetically hard coded into their subconscious no matter how little sense it makes.
RDIT: Appears I were stupid an interpreted your question literally instead of trying to make an actual persuasive explanation.
Can’t really help you with that, I absolutely suck at explain things, especially things I see as self evident. I literally can not imagine what it being any other way would even mean, so I can’t explain how to get from there to here.
beliefs are made of maths and can’t refer to things that are not maths.
...to me that sounds like saying “words are made of letters and can’t refer to things that are not letters, therefore e.g. trees and clouds must be made of letters.” It sounds like a map-territory confusion of insane degree.
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis may be true, but this argument doesn’t really work for me.
Your assumption that physical laws are not reducible to logic is false. http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646
This is extremely controversial, so I’d not use the word “false” here.
I don’t have time to read this this week, but when I do I will get back to you. Thanks for the article.
Thanks for the paper! I have started to read this and am admittedly overwhelmed. I think I understand the concept, but without the ability to understand the math, I feel limited in my scope to comprehend this. Would you be able to give my a brief summary of why we should accept MUH and why it is controversial?
We should believe MUH because it’s mathematically impossible to consistently believe in anything that’s not maths, because beliefs are made of maths and can’t refer to things that are not maths.
It’ controversial because humans are crazy, and can’t ignore things genetically hard coded into their subconscious no matter how little sense it makes.
RDIT: Appears I were stupid an interpreted your question literally instead of trying to make an actual persuasive explanation.
Can’t really help you with that, I absolutely suck at explain things, especially things I see as self evident. I literally can not imagine what it being any other way would even mean, so I can’t explain how to get from there to here.
I appreciate your attempt to try though. Thanks.
...to me that sounds like saying “words are made of letters and can’t refer to things that are not letters, therefore e.g. trees and clouds must be made of letters.” It sounds like a map-territory confusion of insane degree.
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis may be true, but this argument doesn’t really work for me.
Correct, I’ve edited my post to clarify.
I can see no evidence fror that.
or that.
or that. I also don’t see how the conclusion follows even if they are all true.
Yea I were stupid, edited my post.