Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
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Is Everything Reducible to Mathematics?
Physicists have refined their understanding of this thing overtime. We've made up nerty names for these properties we physicists, such as electric charge and lepton number. But the electron doesn't care what language we invent to describe these numbers. This is the pythagorean idea that essentially the true reality of the physical world we inhabit is actually reducible to mathematics. And i just think, well, this is metaphysics. It is a preferred metaphysical claim.
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