Abstract
Physical reality is found, not made. Since it is not a product of definition to begin with, it cannot be exhaustively formalized. Nature is not virtual, nor merely ‘mathematical’, ‘information’, ‘geometry’, ‘simulation’ or ‘computation’. Rather, it must be considered ‘immanently real’. Moreover, there can be no final theory of everything. The computational metaphor is appealing for various psychological and historical reasons, including the certainty offered by deductive systems.
Dan J. Bruiger