Jordan comments on The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jordan 06 April 2010 01:19:09AM 1 point [-]

From the perspective of a sufficiently intelligent being, mathematics is just a set of initial statements (axioms and definitions), along with humans' silly little demonstrations to help each other realize that a bunch rewordings of those statements (theorems) all mean the same thing.

From the perspective of a sufficiently intelligent being, physics is just a set of initial statements, along with a silly demonstration that history is what you get when you apply those statements over and over. How dull!