Comment by adamzwasserman
5 days ago
The whole "math is a universal" language is particularly laughable to me considering it is a formal system and the universe is observably irregular.
As I am wont to say: regularity is only ever achieved at the price of generality.
Many mathematical structures are 'irregular'. That's not a very strong argument against math as a universal descriptor.
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Think about what math is trying to formalize
Math formalizes regularities by abstracting away irregularities - that's precisely my point. Any formal system achieves its regularity by limiting its scope. Math can describe aspects of reality with precision, but it cannot capture reality's full complexity. A 'universal language' that can only express what fits into formal systems isn't universal at all: it's a specialized tool that works within constrained domains.