I am not sure what you mean by mathematics is a “ground truth”. My first reaction is to say, no. Turing (and others) realized the insufficiency of mathematics, as described in Erik J. Larson’s book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence.
I am not sure what you mean by mathematics is a “ground truth”. My first reaction is to say, no. Turing (and others) realized the insufficiency of mathematics, as described in Erik J. Larson’s book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence.
What I mean is that mathematics is the best way we have of modeling reality with high fidelity. As to whether the universe literally *is* mathematical, I am undecided, but I suspect that it is not, and so in this sense I agree with your point. As I wrote:
"And that’s unsatisfying in a sense, because ultimately mathematics can merely be used to represent these inscrutable emergent orders with greater and greater fidelity (also known as modeling reality)."
I am not sure what you mean by mathematics is a “ground truth”. My first reaction is to say, no. Turing (and others) realized the insufficiency of mathematics, as described in Erik J. Larson’s book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence.
What I mean is that mathematics is the best way we have of modeling reality with high fidelity. As to whether the universe literally *is* mathematical, I am undecided, but I suspect that it is not, and so in this sense I agree with your point. As I wrote:
"And that’s unsatisfying in a sense, because ultimately mathematics can merely be used to represent these inscrutable emergent orders with greater and greater fidelity (also known as modeling reality)."