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Mathematics is just another flavor of language. English, French, Math...what's to doubt? Math just requires some extra context in the form of natural speech because it is a more narrow subset. It isn't limited, just less coherent when variables are used without prior definition.

It's amusing that you find it hard for the universe to be described mathematically when physics does just that.

I should note that digital physics does not imply that physics are purely mathematical..they can be procedural -- ie. akin to a C program. When you get down to it though..whatever is doing the higher level computation, the processor, could be accomplishing the instruction set using purely boolean logic.



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