I don't necessarily buy it. I myself am skeptical of mathematical platonism -- as I briefly have skirmished with Troy Cross about. But the point is, I don't agree axiomatically, that information must sit on top of a physical ontology.
I don't necessarily buy it. I myself am skeptical of mathematical platonism -- as I briefly have skirmished with Troy Cross about. But the point is, I don't agree axiomatically, that information must sit on top of a physical ontology.
And as I said above, I don't really agree the physical-information category distinction is as clean as is being suggested, regardless of whether the universe is fundamentally mathematical or not, as Tegmark hypothesizes.