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Is it true that everything is reducible to a law/theory/equation/algorithm?

>> No.10203858

>Is it true that everything is reducible to a law/theory/equation/algorithm?
Why would it be true?

>> No.10203867

>>10203858
Isnt that what the premise of what our knowledge is based around?

>> No.10204458

bump

>> No.10204473

>>10203855
Yes

>> No.10204480

>>10203855
Nope.

Things exist and there is nothing you can do about it. Why would one thing "proof" the existence of another thing? No man, the proof of every and each thing is just the thing itself and nothing else.

>> No.10204489

>>10203867
No, that is just reductionist nonsense.

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>>10203855
QuAnTuM CoNsCiOuSnEsS

>> No.10206506

>>10204489
Explain.

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>>10203855

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>>10203855
No.

Real world(physics) might be reducible to one theory(theory of everything), but math cannot be reduced to finite set of rules(incompleteness theorems)

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>>10206506

define "everything" first of all

physics defines and describes phenomena in great detail but explains very little (depending on your criteria of "explanation"). for example to define emotions as merely chemical is to propose a causal relationship between particles and feelings but nothing else, no "explanation" of feelings. like the word "pain" can be used in place of a scream, but both the word and the scream explain the sensation "pain" to the same degree.

>> No.10207608

>>10206506
Lrn2google fgt pls