Quantum Biology and the Puzzle of Coherence

[Joseph8th]

46. Looking for a ToE ...

... that does not exclude consciousness is the problem. The ToE is, once again, a very specific thing. You can search for some other theory of everything that isn't THE ToE that physicists care about, if you want, but you shouldn't then expect physicists to take it seriously.

You keep talking about "mathematical physics" but physicists just USE mathematics... the physics itself is physical (hence the name), and not mathematical... only the models are mathematical. Moreover, speaking as a mathematician, physicists are mostly hand-wavers to begin with and they don't prove theorems. That's our job. Hell, there's not even a Nobel prize for mathematics, because it's not an empirical science. It's a common mistake to confuse math theories (collections of axioms, definitions, theorems, lemmas, etc.) and scientific theories, but the word "theory" has a very different meaning in pure mathematics than it does in science.

Number theory in particular has very few applications in physics, though some M-theorists have been flirting with Number theory's elliptic curve theory. It's 1st application, though, was to cryptology, not physics, at all.

In short, it's a mistake to consider mathematical objects "real" and math theories "scientific". Godel's is math.