Dear Russell: As to any surprise that we are in the universe we are in I see none. It is just chance.
My previous post did not go into the part of my approach as to why a universe should evolve. What drives this dynamic inside an Everything? The process I have currently set up for this happened to resemble when I was done the life process of survival of the fit. The universes themselves may qualify as life. It is then not surprising that some could for some set of sequential states support large internal structures that follow the same pattern. I currently have convinced myself that there is no observation process on the part of such structures. They simply are the sum total of past interactions with other structures in that universe across the boundary that defines their absence of isolation. The only influence such structures have on the embedding system is this interaction which is not observation but passive accommodation to state to state transition events at the boundary. I then base the rest i.e. predictions as to the nature of our universe on the ideas: 1) That some universes are sufficiently well behaved for some set of sequential states such that each state in the sequence has a deterministicly consistent prior state. This state is found using the rules of that universe absent any true noise component they may allow. This state need not be the actual prior state. 2) That the "state" for some universes is "physically" a pattern of discrete points in a space - in our case a three space. In the end, structures within a particular universe interact with their entire universe so their evolution may influence the survival of their universe. However, due to the nested nature of the Everything and the nature of the process driving the evolution of universes [basically an exercise in finding an allowed next pattern on a randomly shifting Nothing/Everything boundary] the extinction of one universe [a failure to find such a new pattern before the current pattern itself is disrupted by the boundary shifts] does not influence the success or failure of its copies to find an allowed next state. Hal At 2/21/02, you wrote: >The information is contained within the Anthropic Principle >itself. Resource constraints that any observer must have impose a bias >towards simpler descriptions - that is the thrust of Alistair's and my >argument. Without the AP, the Everything is indeed devoid of any >structure whatsoever. I never understood why you persevere in denying >a place for the AP. > > Cheers
