Variations on a theme here. Some interesting and perhaps seemingly different things all share something in common... Music that can be written in sheet music, language that can be faithfully written, a huge chunk of math (if not all maybe), martial arts kata and choreographed dance, games like chess and baseball, and basically anything communicated by some symbols, all share some essential features. I think linguists have a name for these types of structures; I wrote earlier that I would call them Grammatical Systems. So if one can prove something about all grammatical systems, it would hold true for all the items in the list automatically. Trouble is I'm not sure how much I can prove about GS's. I did find one fact about GS's which isn't really deep but it's a start. Trying to find out if others worked in this already, linguists or philosophers of language so I don't have to re-invent the wheel. Well, we'll see where this goes...
Now what I think about a TOE is that it would be like blueprints for reality. I think I can explain it with an analogy: reality is to a TOE as music is to its sheet music. The latter being a sort of mathematical encoding of reality from which all of reality can be "recovered" if deciphered correctly. Looking at it this way, actually writing a TOE down seems pretty far off.
However, if there are blueprints to reality, reality's sheet music if you will, then that would make reality itself a grammatical system. I'd like to know if that's true or not. I doubt it but I feel it's worth investigating. The grammar would roughly speaking be the laws of physics.
