Professor Ramin Zahedi of Hokkaido University, who so kindly endorsed my original submission to the Cornell University arXiv site, also encouraged me to submit the paper to the PhilSci archive hosted by the University of Pittsburgh. I have to admit that I wasn’t familiar with this archive, although I had occasionally come across it […]

Candidly, I’ve lived with the idea of reality being purely a mathematical structure for so long that I’ve forgotten what it felt like before the penny first dropped. I owe my Damascene conversion in 1980 to Douglas Hofstadter’s brilliant, Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which was written primarily to explain the […]