Dear Raiyan Reza,

what a beautiful written essay. I sadly must agree with you, that it seems, that the limits of our mathematical language are the limits of our understanding of the universe.

The mystery then of course is why mathematics is so incredibly effective in describing the universe.

Other questions arise on what mathematics actually is and what mathematical concepts actually acquire meaning. Mathematics finally is a tautological web of concepts with no connections to the physical world. (Is that true?) So why should math give any understanding of nature.

Sometime I contemplate the spaces between things. We do not have word for these. Why?

In my essay I imagine the universe as realization of different mathematical structures, that might change in time and in different environments and giving raise to changing laws. Let me know of what you think of these proposals, if you find the time.

Luca

    Dear Luca Valeri,

    Thanks for your kind feedback and good evaluation of my essay!

    Entertaining the paradigm of mathematics as the exclusive language of human advanced cognition (hence language of science), the answer to mathematics' unreasonable effectiveness ( borrowing Wigner's remark) is we only can model what is mathematical, and nothing beyond it.

    So any aspect of reality beyond mathematics is beyond our grasp of cognition and conceptualization.

    I by no mean propose this as final answer, merely following the conclusion of the tentative and speculative ideas I ( & my co-author) presented in the essay and I suppose this is how our paradigm will address the mystery of mathematics' profound connection to reality.

    I intentionally avoided discussion on the ontological status of mathematics in my essay because I wanted to show even if we chose to ignore the problem ( and it is an important problem) of what precisely is the ontic status of mathematical object, the 3 uns of undecidability, uncomputability, and Unpredictability would matter to the scientists.

    Finally, I eagerly look forward to reading your work and its contribution to this interesting conversation, and will leave behind a feedback.

    Kind Regards,

    Raiyan Reza

    Dear Syed Raiyan Nuri Reza

    Thanks, I appreciate your comment.

    Regards,

    Branko

    Dear Reza. Fantastic work there.rated you accordingly. How does human nature write physics leading to the 3uns?kindly Review my opinion here. https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3525 thanks All the best.

      Dear Professor Michael Muteru,

      Thanks!

      I am looking forward to reading your essay!

      Kind Regards,

      Raiyan Reza

      Dear Syed Raiyan Nuri Reza

      Ok I did not call you Prof now, But your essay shows that you are very intelligent, worth to be called a Prof.....

      Have a look at my essay please and leave a comment and rate it. Then I want to rate your essay well...

      Best wishes

      =snp

      Hello Syed and Syed!

      This was a great essay! I really enjoy your perspective and digging deep into the questions about whether or not math is an artifact of our thinking mind or something that is inherent to nature itself. It's extremely interesting, especially since it could be both! Our minds have evolved from nature, so it's strange to think that, from one point of view, mathematics also evolved from nature.

      Strange to think about, right!? You make very good points about how this is a strange phenomenon. I do tend to lean in the direction that math is structured in a way that reflects our perspective, understanding, and view of the world, which is a result of our physiology. But then again, if we were to meet an alien species someday, I think their math would be very similar to ours. Things such as physical symmetries are universal, even if a base-ten counting system (developed to accommodate counting our very own ten digits) is not.

      Thank you for the insightful read!

      Alyssa

        Dear Dr. Alyssa Adams,

        Thank you for your kind feedback!

        I am in agreements. While in the essay I did not reflect on the ontological status of mathematics, merely that we cannot reason scientifically without the usage of mathematics, I believe that math while deeply linked to our psychology is at the same time independent of it.

        Alien species aside, we can also readily use computers to do mathematics, and I think that is a good argument that mathematics indeed is independent of the human mind.

        An interesting experiment is to ask complete novices in computer science and mathematics to code some basic arithmetic. For instance, raising a number by an exponent. Many people don't know that any number raised to zero is one, and indeed would be surprised that their correct code automatically gives the right response. If mathematics was purely psychological, then there was no way they could have given a code that produced a counter-intuitive but correct ans. Or at least this is how I would interpret this situation.

        Again, thanks for your feedback here!

        Best Wishes,

        Raiyan Reza

        Dear Syed Raiyan Nuri Reza,

        Thank you for rating my essay, I am giving my reply to your post there.

        I rated you well today, it is the 8 th rating, not to be confused...

        Best wishes

        =snp

        Dear Syed Raiyan Nuri Reza,

        Thank you for your reply and reading my essay. You are correct about electrical engineering.

        I posted a reply on my essay to your comments. Hope you will have a look...

        Best Regards

        =snp

          Dear Professor Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta,

          Thanks!

          Read your feedback, and have produced a reply!

          Best Wishes,

          Raiyan Reza

          Dear Professor Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta ,

          I am sorry for missing out on this thread!

          And, thanks for your remarks on my future potential. and for your good rating!

          Best Wishes,

          Raiyan Reza

          Dear Syed Raiyan Nuri Reza

          Thank you for studying my essay, I request you rate it also....

          See my reply to you on my post....

          Best wishes to your essay

          =snp

          Dear Raiyan Reza,

          Thank you for your recent post on my essay

          Thank you for doing such favor, I request you to go through my Blog

          " https://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.com/ " to study further on some cosmological questions.

          Best Wishes to your essy

          =snp

            Dear Professor Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta,

            Sure, I will keep an eye out on your blog.

            Thanks for your comments here!

            Best Wishes,

            Raiyan Reza

            Dear Raiyan Reza,

            I have discovered a simple mathematical structure that seems to generate our universe in about the same time as Tegmark's MUH, the system indicates that there is only one level, our reality. I think the system sheds a clear answer to your thesis. It is verifiable with simple modifiable JavaScript programs. Thanks

              Dear Raiyan and Rastin,

              I enjoyed very much your essay, I find myself in almost complete agreement with it. And it's very well written and argued. I like the discussion whether Nature is monolingual or bi/poly-lingual, and you already know of course that we share the view that most of our thoughts about the world are our own projections, as you well said anything else attributed to her are fictitious ramblings or vague contemplations of the human mind which has no bearing on what Nature is and is not. You already noticed our points of agreement, I would mention another one, concerning Tegmark's proposed the limitation of MUH to the computable structures. I wish you the best in this essay contest!

              Cheers,

              Cristi

                Dear Cristi,

                Thank you for taking time in reading my work, your positive feedback and leaving behind a comment here!

                I am glad that indeed upon reading our work you find mutual grounds with your presentation, research and reasoning; which coming from a researcher to an undergrad like us is vindication!

                Thanks a lot for engaging in conversation, and it was once again, a delight discovering and reading your work!

                Best Wishes,

                Raiyan and Rastin

                Dear Professor Adel Sadeq,

                Thanks for leaving a comment here!

                I will read your work!

                Best Wishes,

                Raiyan