• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact that that math just works everywhere is still one of the most convincing arguments that we live in a computer simulation.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      That gets into the invention vs. discovery dilemma, but mathematics is just a rule system with which we can make models of natural phenomena. Despite multiple efforts to try to resolve all paradoxes, we instead eventually developed a proof that no sufficiently complex system of mathematics can be made without paradox.