mattnewport: This would seem to put you in the opposite corner from Silas, who thinks (if I read him correctly) that all of physical reality is computably describable
No, it wouldn’t—he’s saying basically the same thing I did. The laws of physics are computable. In describing observations, we use concepts from math. The reason we do so is that it allows simpler descriptions of the universe.
No, it wouldn’t—he’s saying basically the same thing I did. The laws of physics are computable. In describing observations, we use concepts from math. The reason we do so is that it allows simpler descriptions of the universe.