So how can we know if the world/universe and the laws of physics themselves are ‘real’ and not just our brain experiencing these models as reality?
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Replying to @lynz_h55
Because of mathematics. The structure of mathematics is so unrelenting that not even God can change it. On the other hand, we cannot experience our actual mathematical models of physical reality.
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Are abstract entities Real scientifically speaking ( rationally)?
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Replying to @davidarredondo @lynz_h55
I don't think that platonism works. I think that only implementations can be real. We cannot observe the actual implementation of the universe however, but we can show that we can describe it as transitions between states of information. Our models are formed about information.
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Is mathematics an abstract entity ( independent of what it so accurately describes or predicts about the physical world)?
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Replying to @davidarredondo @lynz_h55
Mathematics is the domain of all formal languages. It is Hesse's "Glasperlenspiel". Mathematical objects exist in the same way as the Mandelbrot fractal: by picking a set of rules you can derive them, but they don't have an existence independently of the rules.
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So your position is that abstract entities are less real than say, physical objects?
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Replying to @davidarredondo @lynz_h55
Physical objects are encodings that we discover over observable patterns of information. Something real is generating the patterns. This underlying reality may be mathematical in nature, but the mathematical objects we think about construe a purely virtual domain.
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Can natural selection generate patterns?
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And aren't encodings necessarily instantiated by physical objects?
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We cannot observe physical objects, not even matter and energy. They are encodings we discovered to make sense of the observable information.
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So what are your criteria for Reality?
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