oh also that evidence of psych/neuro reasons for math make math as "reality" seem less likely
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@The_Lagrangian that's a library of babel problem: once you've mapped out all the structure there is, there is no void left
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@The_Lagrangian math being rooted in brain structure does not make the platonic realm less plausible, just much less salient
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@The_Lagrangian this is a personal metaphor though, let me see if I can fit it in a few tweets
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@The_Lagrangian consider theories as an index to reality, much like an index is to a library
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@The_Lagrangian reality is human-perceived, books are human-written, both processes are narrative generation
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@The_Lagrangian twitter.com/allgebrah/stat
a normal library's index is smaller than the library, that of babel isn't
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@FrameOfStack I once calculated the size an index of the library of babel would need. It's exactly the size of the library.
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@The_Lagrangian it's reasonable to assume that a "true" reality isn't constrained by human reasoning/readability, babel-like
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@The_Lagrangian so the platonic realm unconstrained by human conceptions of math would be like the Library: dense, homogenous
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@The_Lagrangian there would be no structure left, the structure is purely an artifact of our minds
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