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So let's start with a simple explanation - type 4 is basically a mathematical universe and
contains every mathematical structure. And considering it's postulated by:
In the compendium of all possible universes, some worlds will be stacked like slices of bread,
and some will fly down the throat of a Calabi–Yau manifold: “A universe governed by Newton’s
equations and populated solely by solid billiard balls … is a real universe; an empty universe
with 666 spatial dimensions … is a universe too.”
“How about a universe that obeys the laws of classical physics, with no quantum effects?” asks
Tegmark. “How about time that comes in discrete steps, as for computers, instead of being
continuous? How about a universe that is simply an empty dodecahedron? In the Level IV
multiverse, all these alternative realities actually exist.” So some worlds will be linear, and some
will be cyclical; some will be singular, and some will be plural; some will be infinite, and some
will be finite; some will branch forward, and some will branch back. Some worlds will be
manufactured, and some will be simulated; some designers will be kind, and some will be cruel,
some capable and some all but incompetent.
And, presumably, some of the set of all possible worlds will have a creator-god who breathes
over primordial waters, who separates the seas from dry land.
Platonic concepts and Rudy Rucker's infinities exist in it, as well as existence of all/every
mathematical structures (mathematical modal realism):
As a way out of this philosophical conundrum, I have suggested) that complete mathematical
democracy holds: that mathematical existence and physical existence are equivalent, so that all
mathematical structures have the same ontological status. This can be viewed as a form of
radical Platonism, asserting that the mathematical structures in Plato’s realm of ideas, the
Mindscape of Rucker, exist “out there” in a physical sense, casting the so-called modal realism
theory of David Lewis in mathematical terms akin to what Barrow refers to as “π in the sky”.
Entire physical reality (TOE) is described purely using mathematics:
Taken together, this implies the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, i.e., that the external
physical reality described by the ToE is a mathematical structure. So the bottom line is that if
you believe in an external reality independent of humans, then you must also believe that our
physical reality is a mathematical structure. Nothing else has a baggage-free description. In
other words, we all live in a gigantic mathematical object—one that’s more elaborate than a
dodecahedron, and probably also more complex than objects with intimidating names such as
Calabi-Yau manifolds, tensor bundles and Hilbert spaces, which appear in today’s most
advanced physics theories. Everything in our world is purely mathematical— including you.
Universe is physically real if self-aware beings perceive themselves to live in physical reality :
Given a mathematical structure, we will say that it has physical existence if any self-aware
substructure (SAS) within it subjectively, from its frog perspective, perceives itself as living in a
physically real world.
Sources:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.1283.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.0646.pdf
https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf
https://societyofmodernastronomy.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/the-ultimate-multiverse/
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Reality/dp/0307599809
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Cosmos/dp/0307278123
https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Without-End-Lives-Multiverse-ebook/dp/B00I2G76QK