Axiomism: A Developer's Perspective on the Foundation of Reality
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A software developer proposes "axiomism" — the idea that reality may be a deterministic, layered system resting on an unprovable foundational state, much like mathematical axioms. Drawing analogies from recursive programming, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and quantum mechanics, the essay argues that demanding a full explanation of that base state is a category error, not a solvable problem.
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