There is no contradiction with physics. You think so because you’re confusing ma

There is no contradiction with physics. You think so because you’re confusing mathematics for the purpose of description of regularities in the quantum background and the problem of predicting such regularities when we are limited to probabilities, with the formation of matter by quanta (the universe’s counting system) by the discovery of combinations of stable relations, particles, matter and the hierarchy of their combinations, yes these combinations are computable. This is why computing power is necessary for the discovery of chemical, molecular, biomolecular combinations and the remaining hieararchy of the organization of matter. It can be computed and therefore discovered, but not mathematically predicted (calculated) and even when discovered it may not be mathematically reducible, and may only be algorithmically reducible thus repeating the process of its construction. It’s also why for example bayesian accounting (what we call machine learning) has been successful of late at inference of molecular structures that are a potentnial which are then reversibly engineerd demonstrating their means of construction. They are not calculable, but they are open to calculation, it’s just extremely inefficient to work by trial and error. When we do so we compress time by modeling, just as computers compress time by modeling our own pencil and paper calculations.

I can’t be wrong by the way. Wolfram understands this problem the best I think, but he isn’t terribly good at explaining it in operational terms. Which is unfortunate. Because it helps explain the failures of the past fifty years of research in physics, how einstein and bohr encouraged that failure indirectly, and it explains why Minsky, in his introduction to computer science was adamant that computation was a novel way of thining and that it is a revolution on top of mathematics just as empiricism was on philosophy.

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