TheirFeldspars:
Sometimes I wonder if it’s some kind of emergent behavior that naturally arises on top of some kind of mathematical substrate…maybe some sort of simple formula or algorithm that exists that generates all the complicated emergent stuff by itself. Not a simulation as such.
Who or what created mathematics?
As for who created mathematics, there are those who think it is invented/created by humans, and there are those who think it is logical necessity (hence not needing a creator), and discovered. I’m with Tegmark.
In physics and cosmology, the mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH), also known as the ultimate ensemble theory, is a speculative "theory of everything" (TOE) proposed by cosmologist Max Tegmark.
Tegmark's MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics — specifically, a mathematical structure. Mathematical existence equals physical existence, and all structures that...
