Alternatively, all of nature can be explained by mathematics, rather then being based on it.
Yeah I was gonna say, mathematics is the human interpretation of naturally occurring proportions
One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.
Edit: it's a quote from this excellent movie, pi: https://youtu.be/yRjkQT9xLZs
Eh, no. Mathematics is an hallucination of ours we are trying to desperately map onto reality. I say this as a mathematician. When you look out into our reality, you know what we see? A curved universe. There is nothing in our reality that is truely STRAIGHT.
YET, we creatures came up with such an unnatural thing as a straight line. Straight lines are a uniquely human hallucination. Its the logic we use to make sense of the world, but its a Rorschach test of our own making. You are attaching meaning to it because thats what our brains do. generate meaning out of chaos.
I need to look no further than pi, which is a number that represents our feeble attempts to push the round universe into our square heads. Its trying to represent the curved universe as a straight line (and visavers) - and reality said : LOL, NOPE!! YOU get a number that is more illusive than the irrationals. A never ending non patterned number.
All of nature is not based on mathematics. Mathematics is the language we use to describe nature. Thats like saying the Grand Canyon is BASED on book describing the Grand Canyon.
1.) No its not. Its our language, not nature's.
2.) To a degree, yes. But thats because our brains are pattern seeking and pattern generating machines - not because nature follows a system WE made up.
3.) Did I mention Pi yet
Here
https://i.imgur.com/a5ueCi5.jpg
THIS is a graph of a discovery that I made in number theory. Does it look like it has a pattern to you? I think this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, because IT MAKES NO SENSE. which means, we still have a lot to discover and learn
mathematics is a human language/system.
nature just follows the laws and quirks this universe has. the plants, animals and subatomic particles will keep doing the same, regardless if we have a tool or theory that can describe what they're doing.
sure, there are patterns everywhere in nature, but i would not go as far as to say that that makes mathematics a language of nature.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that this a quote from the movie Pi.
Here’s a link to the trailer. It has the quote in it. https://youtu.be/r0SC582sJvE
Then why I, as part of nature, is dumb as shit in math? Checkmate matheists
I'd say this is a matter of philosophical preference. Everything you described can be explained as human perception using numbers and math to interpret reality. This doesn't mean that math somehow is the substructure underneath everything that is.
HOWEVER: The more I learn about computer science and information theory, the more I look at everything being built from bits - elementary particles can be looked at the same as a capacitor in a ram stick holding a TRUE or FALSE state, abstractly.
Still, I understand and can advocate for the idea that math isn't necessarily some magic code underlying everything, even if that sounds convincing. Call it an exercise in holding two opposing ideas in one's mind at the same time.
I see both ideas as being viable.
Mathematics is the language of our monkey brains. It's an attempt to describe nature.
Literally everything ever has patterns that emerge as soon as you start looking for them. Math is only the "language of nature" in that the entire idea behind mathematics is that is must be consistent, otherwise it's just useless.
Basically, math deroved from the universe (specifically our study of it), and not the other way around.
Three tress just sitting there in someone's yard
HOLY SHIT, Look at that, there's exactly three trees, its like it's reality is based on math or something :O
Incorrect, of course the universal language we use to describe nature is everywhere in nature.
This reminds me of a comment, I read a long time ago.
It was something like this: "I played The Sims, and everything was business as usual, my Sims went to University, and got a degree in Computer Science until they proved they live in a simulation. I stopped playing Sims for that night."
Also explains why the world is so fucked up and how fascism can take. Also explains why there so many assholes in the world. Most people at some point play evil when they played Sims. Weather it was the simple version and you cause tornadoes to tear through your city. Our the more modern versions. I seen clips were players would lock a character in a doorless room. Or take away the ladder in the pool and the character would drown.
There other examples but it maybe why Trump is so popular in America and why so many people that actually want the world to burn and enjoy fucking up the environment.
Some things I think about occasionally. So should you.
Nah I don't think so. What people do in a simulation can approximate what they'd do in real life with no consequences but in real life there are always consequences. And most people need to see themselves as the hero in their own story so they won't do things that they perceive as evil.
It seems to me that most individual people think they are right in whatever they're doing. Including voting for Trump, being hateful, etc.
Well, if we are in a simulation, there is very likely an admin ;)
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Our "universe" simultaneously is and is not a simulation because reality is relative to the seer. It's a fun thing to think about but pointless due to our limited understanding on what would make one universe 'real' and another a 'simulation', since really they're one and the same, just at different scales. It is interesting to think about though whether or not our universe has a parent universe which it exists inside of. And if so how deep that nesting goes. If our universe isn't contained inside something else, does that mean our universe simply is everything? No way to really know.
Right. By whatever logic we deduce that our universe is simulated, it would be just as likely that our simulators are also simulated. And from there you get simulations on to infinity and a simulation becomes as real as reality gets.
I sometimes like to think that, for another being, the earth is the size of an atom, and that humans are kind of like bacteria
I like to think our universe is just a snow globe on some alien kid's shelf.
Sometimes I like to think that for some being, the earth is the size of a cell, and we humans are like bacteria trying to keep it alive and we are part of something insanely massive, at least massive to us.
to quote XKCD, a rock is an analog computer that generates a rock
Someone building the simulation was like “yeah, let’s simulate diarrhea and make people have it just for funsies”.
-boner code is buggy and triggers for no reason sometimes
-whatever ship it
The Sims new dlc
Well of course does the universal language we developed describe things universally
But... We invented mathematics in order to understand nature
All hail the grand backend dev
"The world is binary. You're either a 1 or a 0. Alive or dead." - Gary Winston
This fits well with c/distressingmemes
The kid looks like Ezra Miller. Maybe that’s why he’s so fucked up.
Oh no they are going to shut us down if we figure it out
The thing about physics and maths is that we invent new maths to describe new physics. It happens all the time.
