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From: Hal Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: Peculiarities of our universe
There are a couple of peculiarities of our universe which it would be
nice if the All-Universe Hypothesis (AUH) could explain,
Erick,thanks for your comments on my exchange with GeorgeQ.
Although I do not claim to have understood (digested?) all of your post,
I feel it may be in my line of thinking (pardon me the offense). I just use
less connotations to 'time' related phrases, as may be obvious from below.
Over the
Hal Finney wrote:
One is the apparent paucity of life and intelligence in our universe.
This was first expressed as the Fermi Paradox, i.e., where are the aliens?
As our understanding of technological possibility has grown the problem
has become even more acute. It seems likely that our
Eric Hawthorne wrote:
So the answer to *why* it is true that our universe conforms to simple
regularities and produces complex yet ordered systems governed
(at some levels) by simple rules, it's because that's the only kind of
universe that an emerged observer could have emerged
in, so that's
In a previous post in reply to Hal Finnay, I have suggested the use
of a particuliar case of additional conditions to the hypothetical
set of equation that would rule ou universe. This is an attempt
to clarify it while taking it out from the computation perspective
with which it has nothing to do.
Georges Quenot writes:
Considering the kind of set of equation we figure up to now,
completely specifying our universe from them seems to require
two additional things:
1) The specification of boundary conditions (or any other equivalent
additional constraint.
2) The selection of a set
Hal Finney wrote:
Jesse Mazer writes:
Hal Finney wrote:
However, I prefer a model in which what we consider equally likely is
not patterns of matter, but the laws of physics and initial conditions
which generate a given universe. In this model, universes with simple
laws are far more likely
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