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

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Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 12 August 2012 05:42:47AM 0 points [-]

Everyone who says 'metaphysics' could explain the same thing without saying. Mostly talk about ontology are extremely social prone, with explain the overall skepticism present here.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2012 08:12:03AM 0 points [-]

Metaphysics as the generally accepted paintbrush handle is not a natural, nor well-formed thingspace cluster, that is correct.

However, while Physics are about the world of causal interactions that we call the territory, there are things like cosmology that heavily rests on belief in the implied invisible w.r.t. the cosmological horizon. There are also things like speculating why the universe has simple mathematical descriptions, how to apply the anthropic principle to multiverses and so on and forth.

All of those I would consider less physics and more maths.