1. because the final explanation of everything can be expressed as a set of numbers, and because the explanation is self-consistent by design, we can use mathematics (which is also self-consistent by design) to guess beforehand the relationships that must exist between the symbols used in the explanation; and

2. because all truths about everything are expressed in the explanation of everything, then all truths about the explanation of everything are also truths about everything.

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1. Any language can be expressed as a set of numbers.

2. Who designed the self-consistency in the explanation. Is it God or is it Dick, and is it really true? Perhaps a false assumption. Godel would agree.

3. Why just choose a limited kind of math. Why not use every available kind of math? Why not, because all math is not self-consistent- much of it is contradictory. Certainly a false assumption even without invoking Godel.

4. Godel's incompletness theorem makes #2 as well as #1 impossible. If no consistent math system is complete, then there can be no consistent final explanation of anything, let alone everything. Math itself is not self-cansistent and complete.

All the assumptions are bad. Perhaps that is why Dick claims he is not making any assumptions (read sense).

• doesn't this just lend credence - sagefr0g - October 1, 2003 - 14:42 UTC
  • Who knows what F=0 means - yanniru - October 1, 2003 - 15:36 UTC
    • well - sagefr0g - October 1, 2003 - 17:00 UTC
      • Not if free will exists - yanniru - October 1, 2003 - 18:57 UTC
        • i'm sure you know - sagefr0g - October 2, 2003 - 00:13 UTC
          • It predicts the Schrodinder equation - yanniru - October 2, 2003 - 04:06 UTC
            • Feynman's path integral - harvey1 - October 2, 2003 - 14:56 UTC
              • Yes- but that is not how he did QED - yanniru - October 3, 2003 - 02:06 UTC
              • Feynman's path integral method.. - bruce - October 3, 2003 - 03:22 UTC
            • the funny thing is - sagefr0g - October 2, 2003 - 21:31 UTC