Everything is made of code

Everything is made of particles.¹
Particles are 'bundles of properties'.²

A 'bundle of properties and capabilities' is code (of an object in object-oriented programming).³

∴ Everything is made of code.


¹ from the atomists of ancient Greece (Today, their 'atom' becomes our 'particle'.)
² from an August 2013 Scientific American article (Also, Quantum Identity: lecture notes from Jonathan Bain)
³ from a computer science textbook


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Quantificational Relativity

Theory of FIN (Jan Mycielski) =

      Finite Mathematics of Indefinitely Large Sets (Shaughan Lavine) =

            Quantificational Relativity

The language of code

Mathematicians and physicists may have a "love-hate relationship" because they don't speak the same language. Fortunately, the mathematician and the physicist can meet at the computer (numerical relativity, quantum Monte Carlo, etc.) and begin to speak a common language: The language of code.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_relativity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Monte_Carlo
haskell.org/haskellwiki/Numeric_Quest
...


(There really is no concrete language of mathematics until it's expressed in code: LaTeX/Mathematics for display, a coding language for execution.)

Argument against consilience

The sciences and the humanities are two (or multiple) codesbases, each with perhaps different coding languages. Separate to a large degree in their development and purposes, but can share code (reuse) in their interactions.

See also Against Unity by Richard Rorty

Codologism

Codologism is ontic pancomputationalism, but with working code.

The brain is made of code

IBM's Corelet programming language.

TCC is made of these

The comic computer (TCC) combines code, Tegmark's universes (MUH → CUH → CFUH), Wolfram's automata (NKS), and coditrons (filling the universe like Higgs bosons and distributed like the cells of an irregular lattice Wolfram-type CA; made of probabilistic logic gates via probabilistic λ calculus or probabilistic SKI combinator calculus: SKIP).

How to think like a materialist

Materialists think in term of concrete things. Platonists think also in terms of abstractions (nonmaterial things).

Examples:

This from a recent Google+ post:

Is physics truth, metaphor, or less? David Tong, Hilary Lawson, and Lev Vaidman debate.
<iai.tv/video/uncovering-reality>
(<plus.google.com/118265897954929480050/posts/jAJgaYGPUka>)

My materialist answer:

Physics is some math expressions written in LaTeX and put into journal articles.

On whether the "mind" is a "computer":

When they say "the mind isn't doing computation like a computer", I think are using the word "computation" in an abstract sense (e.g., as "symbol manipulation"). Because in that sense, computers aren't doing computation either! All computers do is push elections around from disks and memory chips, etc. through SoC circuits back out to memory chips and out onto wireless signals, fiber optic cables, and LED displays and so forth. We only imagine they are doing "computation" (in that sense). The point is that at some level neither the brain nor computer is doing "symbol manipulation".


I think platonism clutters thinking. Assuming we live in a natural world without supernatural things, materialism should suffice.


posted to Atoms and the Void (Google Groups)


see also <huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/materialism-deconstructed_b_2228362.html>

cosmic computer posts on Google+

Why the "analogy with photosynthesis" in arguing the "mind isn't computation" doesn't work
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CONSCIOUSNESS AND SENTIENT ROBOTS
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I think the ACers are right
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LaTeX/Mathematics
<plus.google.com/108161427707267075271/posts/G4VepNz7GpZ>

What if we were just outputs of nature's 4D printer?
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Posting on a Google+ stream is a bit faster sometimes than than publishing on a Blogger blog.