http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/2007/09/14/the-parameters-of-reality-ours-at-least/ Correcting the incorrigible Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:02:08 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/2007/09/14/the-parameters-of-reality-ours-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Lincoln Cannon Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:41:12 +0000 http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/?p=47#comment-41 All four possibilities can work together. For example, let's assume we're in a multiverse. Even then, as I understand the math, a universe such as ours would initially be extremely rare -- a fluke, so to speak. However, once a universe such as ours exists, it may develop a means for propogating other universes like itself, such that it becomes less rare for such universes to exist in the multiverse. Over time, universes like ours might even become quite common according to a sort of cosmic Darwinian selection. How could a universe like ours propogate? Some have speculated that black holes (which theoretically could only form in a universe like our own) might be doing something of the sort. Another possibility is that sufficiently advanced intelligence may prove capable of producing new universes computationally, as described in the Simulation Hypothesis of the Simulation Argument, and need not rely merely on the sort of improbability that might have produced a first universe capable of producing advanced intelligence. All four possibilities can work together. For example, let’s assume we’re in a multiverse. Even then, as I understand the math, a universe such as ours would initially be extremely rare — a fluke, so to speak. However, once a universe such as ours exists, it may develop a means for propogating other universes like itself, such that it becomes less rare for such universes to exist in the multiverse. Over time, universes like ours might even become quite common according to a sort of cosmic Darwinian selection. How could a universe like ours propogate? Some have speculated that black holes (which theoretically could only form in a universe like our own) might be doing something of the sort. Another possibility is that sufficiently advanced intelligence may prove capable of producing new universes computationally, as described in the Simulation Hypothesis of the Simulation Argument, and need not rely merely on the sort of improbability that might have produced a first universe capable of producing advanced intelligence.

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