can math be though of as a set of rules that describe everything that exist?

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I keep on thinking that everything around us is basically just information. Be it DNA, atoms, or spacetime itself. And math is the set of rules that explain the interaction, flow and existence of this information. We did not uncover all the rules yet. Does this make sense?

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Maths doesn’t intrinsically describe anything. It’s a set of logic that, it seems, lets us predict some behaviour of what we see around us pretty well if we plug in the right numbers in the right places, but it doesn’t tell us what numbers to put where.

Also, atoms are not information. They are atoms. I can use bottle caps to store and transmit information, but that doesn’t make them intrinsically special.

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