Is the Physical World a Mathematical Structure?

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The world's actual structure is mathematical, because it would in turn, supervene on the correct mathematical symbol gy of completed physics. So i'll have to confess, i just don't know what this means. You know that people have made claims about physical reality being in some sense intrinsically mathematical. Whether they're saying that it is math in some sense, like max mark might want to gesture toward that, I just don't understand at all.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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