lukstafi comments on Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules - Less Wrong

32 Post author: pragmatist 08 August 2012 04:27AM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 09 August 2012 06:46:40PM 1 point [-]

I should have been more careful when I said "arithmetic" too, because if I recall correctly a system that has only addition and not multiplication is insufficient to construct a self referencing statement.

I guess I am making the assumption that if the rules of the universe exist, they at least contain addition and multiplication since we can construct both of them.