Numbers are just this strange paint that humans apply to some things. Real computers are not based on numbers, they are based on physics of the natural world, which we only model with numbers. There is no ontological confirmation that reality is numerical; we just have a small handful of experiences which indicate that it can be understood as such.
This hits to the core question of whether math is real or fantasy. If we built a computer to calculate 1+1=2 and prints true for some millennium until one day when it suddenly prints false; what type of problem is that? Is math now wrong, or is it safe?
what if one day 1+1 becomes meaningless to us? The computer prints 2 but suddenly it’s as static to us? This seems like a downgrade, but what if this is accompanied by direct knowledge or an upgraded type of model to understand reality? It’s not seen as 2, but the underlying natural mechanisms are perceived directly? Math is broken, it doesn’t even seem to exist, yet the world continues on and we perceive it in some new strange predictive certainty?
This hits to the core question of whether math is real or fantasy. If we built a computer to calculate 1+1=2 and prints true for some millennium until one day when it suddenly prints false; what type of problem is that? Is math now wrong, or is it safe?
what if one day 1+1 becomes meaningless to us? The computer prints 2 but suddenly it’s as static to us? This seems like a downgrade, but what if this is accompanied by direct knowledge or an upgraded type of model to understand reality? It’s not seen as 2, but the underlying natural mechanisms are perceived directly? Math is broken, it doesn’t even seem to exist, yet the world continues on and we perceive it in some new strange predictive certainty?