[ExI] Another reason why Platonism can't be true

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 22/02/2026 11:41, John K Clark wrote:
> ... it's impossible to process data without physics


Very good point. And further, it's impossible for information to even exist without some kind of physical embodiment.

That's all that needs to be said, really.

1) It rules out the existence of a 'Platonic realm' containing all of maths, because maths is full of things that need to be calculated in order for them to be known.

Unless you claim that all the results of all the calculations that are possible, already exist (an infinite number).

And then, 2) you'd need to explain how this infinite amount of information can exist without any physical embodiment.

If that were somehow possible, what would then be the point of the physical world? Why would it even exist? That would be the biggest violation of Occam's Razor possible.

There's no information processing, or even any information to be processed, without the physical world. Any possible 'platonic realm' would have to be another physical world, but with an infinite information capacity (and probably no time dimension).

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Ben