We venture once again to the Moon! Let us do so with humility, inspired by the interplay of light & shadow, mankind’s history of rise & fall. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and “There Ain’t No Such Thing As a Free Lunch!”
This article (below) reminds me of the Mathematical universe hypothesis: the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics …
• iai news > Reality cannot be turned into mathematics by Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith [1] (3-24-2026) – Today we live in a time of renewed belief in our ability to model the world mathematically, using physics and its manifold applications.
- We will always be in a position where we can use mathematics to create predictive models of only small portions of reality.
- [Predictive mathematical] models, of any system, rely on regularities of the system’s behavior—and most systems do not behave in a regular fashion.
Notes
[1] Authors
- Jobst Landgrebe | Guest Professor of AI at University of Lugano and Senior Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Buffalo.
- Barry Smith | Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science at the University at Buffalo.