Thursday, August 15, 2013

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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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Quantificational Relativity



Theory of FIN (Jan Mycielski) =

      Finite Mathematics of Indefinitely Large Sets (Shaughan Lavine) =

            Quantificational Relativity


Tuesday, August 13, 2013

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



Monday, August 12, 2013

Codologism



Codologism is ontic pancomputationalism, but with working code.