The biggest challenge for anybody claiming that "math isn't real" is providing a plausible explanation for why math has been so incredibly successful at predicting phenomena in the real world. How can something that's not real still predict real things?
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Yes that's a better way of saying it. not to mention even the simple three-body system defeats math :)
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Yeah, "physics envy" is pretty awful and ends up more of a smoke and mirrors thing, giving a false sense of objectivity, than really improving the field (besides assuming that objectivity is better than subjectivity, which is now always true)
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To use some terms from statistics, physics has a lot of "exchangeability" to the observations and "generalizability" to the findings. The rules of causation are simpler and more universal. I suspect any system with these properties would be easy to model mathematically.
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The phenomenon of consciousness always fucks everything up.
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