Formal Languages, Ideology, Money and Toys

If you're a computer dude or dudette the following is something you've seen a bazilion times:

int main(int argc, const char** argv) { return 0; }

If you're not, it's nothing major, just the computer language "C". A compiler can transform that line of formal language, aka code, into machine instructions, that is a string of numbers that will cause the logic circuits in the CPU to operate on other binary data. In this case, nothing is really done.

Some people believe our universe can be represented by formal languages. I don't. I think the universe (and our brains) are a different kind of thing--poetry based? Anyway formal languages can produce models--toy representations of aspects of the world.

Most of us actually live inside various toy representations. Our "economy" is a big toy. Bullshit ideologies of various types: communism, capitalism, etc... are toys. They're not real they're not complete. They're pretty low fidelity Fisher-Price versions of actuality.