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Chasing Consciousness

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Is Everything Mathematical?

Do you, like Galileo, believe that the great book of nature is written in mathematical language and perhaps more sort of controversially is everything math? Great, great question. So I'll talk about mathematics at two different levels here. First, just as a pragmatic tool. It helps us to take our ideas, make them mathematically precise so we can see what they entail and see where we didn't think things out. Often when we write down a scientific theory, we realize, oh, I didn't think about this and the mathematics is forcing me to write something down. What do I think about that? And so the mathematics really forces you to spell everything out as much as possible.

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