The So-Called Nightmare Scenario

"I certainly don't share your concern with the so-called nightmare scenario. That doesn't necessarily seem worrying to me," he says. "It looks like it would tell us something along the lines of, you know, what's kind of important when we're doing science is doing something and thinking about the world in a way that suits us" He asks: Is it possible to have a technological civilization that doesn't use this particular method of building internal mathematical models to describe the universe?