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First, if the laws of physics could be reduced to laws of logic, it would seem that they would be deterministic, which the laws of physics do not seem to be.
Second, our experiences at different times seem to be related (although not completely, but even if they were completely) by laws of physics. And these experiences consist of different events. It cannot be that one experience is logically determined by the other. Logic is logically necessary and such connections between events are not logically necessary. There may be some other possible meaning of “necessary”. I may be begging the question (in the original sense), but in a way that is unavoidable.
I do believe both Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, entertained the thought that the laws of physics might be laws of logic. But they made no progress on working this out.
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