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Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

With laws of physics slightly more exotic than that, we would not be able to explain anything and hence could not exist. So there is something special, infinitely special, it seems, about the laws of physics as we find them exceptionally computation friendly. An explanation. The physicist eugene wignar called this the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Anthropic argument alone cannot explain it. Something else willo. David then goes through bad explanations for what explains the unreasonable effective of mathematics and natural sciences.

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