caa a22 4500 467906033 CHVBK 20180406152834.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10701-006-9048-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10701-006-9048-x On Math, Matter and Mind [Elektronische Daten] [Piet Hut, Mark Alford, Max Tegmark] We discuss the nature of reality in the ontological context of Penrose's math-matter-mind triangle. The triangle suggests the circularity of the widespread view that math arises from the mind, the mind arises out of matter, and that matter can be explained in terms of math. Non-physicists should be wary of any claim that modern physics leads us to any particular resolution of this circularity, since even the sample of three theoretical physicists writing this paper hold three divergent views. Some physicists believe that current physics has already found the basic framework for a complete description of reality, and only has to fill in the details. Others suspect that no single framework, from physics or other sources, will ever capture reality. Yet others guess that reality might be approached arbitrarily closely by some form of future physics, but probably based on completely different frameworks. We will designate these three approaches as the fundamentalist, secular and mystic views of the world, as seen by practicing physicists. We present and contrast each of these views, which arguably form broad categories capturing most if not all interpretations of physics. We argue that this diversity in the physics community is more useful than an ontological monoculture, since it motivates physicists to tackle unsolved problems with a wide variety of approaches. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 ontology nationallicence mathematics nationallicence physics nationallicence consciousness nationallicence Hut Piet Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, NJ, USA aut Alford Mark Department of Physics, Washington University, Campus Box 1105, 63130, St Louis, MO, USA aut Tegmark Max Department of Physics & Kavli Inst. for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA aut Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/6(2006-06-01), 765-794 0015-9018 36:6<765 2006 36 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9048-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9048-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hut Piet Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alford Mark Department of Physics, Washington University, Campus Box 1105, 63130, St Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tegmark Max Department of Physics & Kavli Inst. for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/6(2006-06-01), 765-794 0015-9018 36:6<765 2006 36 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer