I think you have a mistake here:<p>&gt; ...the same as different meat (constructed using the symbols)?<p>Your answer is talking about a comparison between, e.g., a human and an essentially identical human &#x2F;constructed&#x2F; using a set of symbols that encodes our understanding of the human&#x27;s constitution.<p>The original question is comparing, e.g. a human and a set of symbols which describes the human.<p>I consider each of the following to be meaningfully separate questions:<p>Reality is mathematics.<p>Reality can be created with mathematics.<p>Something equivalent to reality can be created using mathematics, if &#x27;informational equivalence&#x27; is the equivalence relation in question.