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Re:Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being re... by jbotz on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:43AM (#35522823)
Is it? Says who? This is an untirely unfalsifiable assumption. I personally don't share it. "It from bit"[0], I say, mathematics is fundamental, physical reality is just our perception of the underlying math.

[0] Title of a paper by John Wheeler. Can't find it right now, but if you google "it from bit" you'll find a lot of commentary on it.

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Re:Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being re... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:58AM (#35525232)
The concept of fundamentality doesn't exist in mathematics, and it's by design. What is fundamental, Tailor series or Fourier transform? Mathematics doesn't care, it simply has no such concept.
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Re:Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being re... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:09PM (#35529852)
Found commentary on "it from bit". It looks like an attempt to resurrect antirealism (participatory universe). The reason why antirealism was buried is because there's too much realism in quantum physics, so it won't fly.
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