Dear Hal: The idea that the Everything does not contain the UD appears self contradictory.
That said the Everything as a system is generally thought of by some at least as containing no information. [Otherwise where did this information come from?] To sustain this requirement it must contain counterfactuals to the UD. Among these would be universe generators whose foundation is anything but the UD [or any ensemble of UDs]. Having reached that result, at least some of these generators would form an ensemble subject - by their internal structure - to the injection of external random noise originating in the remainder of the Everything. Is it possible to sustain a no information Everything if there is a selection in which this latter ensemble is the only generators subject to such noise? The very concept of any selection within the Everything necessarily places information within the Everything and must thus be disallowed. My conclusion is the all generators within the Everything are subject to such noise by some mechanism or another. Further I think that from this I would have to conclude that no differential measure of any sort [actually a selection result] between universes can arise over the ensemble of all universes. As to consciousness I do not believe a decent definition of it is extant but I do believe for obvious reasons that - whatever it is - it is only supported in a universe with noise of external origin there being no other kind of universe - IMO. All of this is OK as far as I can tell since one can see our universe inside the complete ensemble but I see it as being in the part of the ensemble that contains those universes that are subject to the noise by their internal structure as opposed to the UD type of generator which would be subject to this noise to avoid a selection. There is no reason that I can see why some of these universes subject to noise by their internal structure would not evolve in a way that appears [internally] to follow simple rules expressible in a mathematics. I also believe there are easy ways to demonstrate that features of our universe can be based on such a foundation. Further I do not see that universes evolving in a highly random way can not be an alternate base for a universe evolving by simple rather well behaved rules if we allow that intervening states inconsistent with such a view go unnoticed by an observer - whatever that is - that considers itself to be in the supposed well behaved universe. Hal
