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Re:Is the Universe Made of Math? by tpeo on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:14PM (#14678760)
>[...] that our reality isn't just described by mathematics – it is mathematics, in a very specific sense. Not just aspects of it, but all of it, including you.

Cue to Whitehead's "a series of footnotes to Plato" quip. Though I think he was a bit off the mark. People aren't merely talking about Plato, but unwittingly echoing him. It's kind of like that another quote, this time from Keynes, about practical men being "slaves" to the opinions of long dead economists.

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