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catapart 3 hours ago

not a downvoter (actually, an upvoter), so grain of salt, but in my experience people cannot stand this framing. my best guess is that they dislike how impractical it is. obviously it's too abstract to be useful for most practical application. but that doesn't make it any less true.

it's a bit like saying "everything is a process", or "everything is a part of the same singular process that has been playing out since observable history". there's some interesting uses you can get out of that framing, but it's not generally applicable in the way that something like "all programs are unable to tell when a process will halt" is.

but if you really want to harvest the downvotes, I haven't found a better lure than "everything, including the foundations of mathematics, is just a story we are telling each other/ourselves." I know it's true and I still hate it, myself. really feels like it's not true. but, obviously, that's just the english major's version of "everything is a function".