Some comments on "The Mathematical Universe"

Details Some comments on "The Mathematical Universe" Some comments on "The Mathematical Universe"

2009-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0867v1

Found. Phys. 39: 397-406, 2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10701-009-9286-9

I discuss some problems related to extreme mathematical realism, focusing on a recently proposed "shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics (arXiv:0704.0646, arXiv:0709.4024). I offer arguments for a moderate alternative, the essence of which lies in the acceptance that mathematics is (at least in part) a human construction, and discuss concrete consequences of this--at first sight purely philosophical--difference in point of view.

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