eli5 a theory about simulation theory is that mathematics is just the code of our universe, how does math work like code for the universe aside from simulation theory?
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Math is a language to explain the universe, not dictate it.
It follows strict syntax and semantics. Sometimes from one or multiple syntactically and semantically correct statements that are true, we can derive other syntactically and semantically correct statements that must be true by the logic of the language.
It’s like in english when you see that it’s raining, you can say that A: it’s raining, and B: The road becomes wet. It is now proven that from A follows B or short A->B, but that does not mean that only because the road is wet that it must’ve been raining. Could’ve been a pissing cow. But what we can definetely derive from it is: If the road is not wet, it definetely wasn’t raining. From not B follows not A, or short !B->!A. This logic is fundamental and only one of many examples of how math helps us to understand the interior architecture of our universe, but it’s most certainly not programming it.
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