anonym comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 16 June 2014 04:08:50PM 2 points [-]

the structure of the universe is isomorphic to the ideal math that we could use to explain and predict it. I would not be at all surprised to find out that somehow, "they are the same thing," whatever that might mean.

Tegmark's Mathematical universe hypothesis is one answer to what that might mean.