Hi Jason I can't think of any more fundamental question than 'why anything?'. The associated question 'why _this_ something?' can be used to skewer most attempted TOE's, but from what I understand of your approach I agree that you avoid this fate, so just on those grounds alone I think it should be taken seriously. And there are not many other surviving candidates.
Embracing many different ideas at once requires some careful navigation though. For example, I am not sure how Bruno's link to Everett and the Born Rule (or equivalent) for the purposes of obtaining relative measures across worlds/histories (level 3 multiverse in Tegmark's notation) would connect up to that given by favouring shorter programs over longer ones (level 4). The clarity of ideas presented in the article have helped to crystallize some of my own thoughts, and I would agree with much of its content. I hope that the article (and any book from it) is widely read and digested. Alastair -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f87b52a5b483877ca372b4286ca41d3e%40physica9.co.uk.
