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Musing that heavy computation, not science, shapes reality

Original: Does anyone else ever worry that the scientific method doesn't work and instead it's just that any heavy computation (li

A mathematician's offbeat question is circulating: maybe the scientific method doesn't actually work, and instead any heavy computation — like doing the math needed to model a phenomenon — exhausts local resources and makes the universe more malleable, which we then misread as a successful prediction. Readers are debating the idea as playful skepticism about whether science describes reality or merely bends it.

Why now: The provocative suggestion that science is an illusion of computation sparks philosophical debate about how the universe works.

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• Does anyone else ever worry that the scientific method doesn't work and instead it's just that any heavy computation (like doing a bunch of math in order to model some phenomenon) exhausts the local resources and makes the universe more malleable? Maybe we just tell ourselves… · caten@mathstodon.xyz · 4

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