Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

From: <marc.geddes.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:38:11 -0800 (PST)

>When I talk about "pure mathematics" I mean that kind of mathematics you have in GameOfLife. There you have "gliders" that move in the GameOfLife-universe, and these gliders interact with eachother when they meet. These gliders you can see as physical objects. These physical objects are reducible to pure mathematics, they are the consequences of the rules behind GameOfLife. 

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Torgny
That kind of mathematics - models of cellular automata -  is the
domain of the theory of computation.  These are just that - models.
But there is no reason for thinking that the models or mathematical
rules are identical to the physical entities themselves just because
these rules/models can precisely predict/explain the behaviour of the
physical objects.
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