Questions tagged [multiverse]
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Does Tegmark himself include paraconsistent mathematical structures in his mathematical multiverse hypothesis?
Tegmark postulates in his hypothesis that all possible mathematical structures would exist. But does he include also possible mathematical structures described by other types of logic like paraconsistent…
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Do multiverse theories undermine intelligent design arguments mathematically?
It is well known that the probability of life arising in a universe of our sort is vanishingly small. Theists have used this fact to argue that life is designed by God. However, if there are an infinite number of parallel universes as part of a…
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Did Stephen Hawking think that logic is contingent on physics?
According to this book*: Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, it says that Stephen Hawking thought that logic was contingent on physics, i.e that logic depends on the physics of a given hypothetical universe. It basically says…
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Did physicist Max Born think that mathematical structures are platonic entities?
It seems that prominent physicist Max Born (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Born) believed in some kind of Platonism.
We can infer this, for example, from the book "The Innermost Kernel" (https://epdf.pub/the-innermost-kernel.html):
In a letter…
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Can many worlds interpretation have universes with different laws?
The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics is classified by Max Tegmark as a level-3 multiverse hypothesis. This means that in the universes that it will predict, there could be different constants of nature, but the fundamental laws of…
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Being a determinist and a believer in a multiverse seems contradictory
A determinist holds that everything is determined by the physical world around them and free will is an illusion.
A multiverse suggests there are an infinite number of alternative universes in existence, of which we only experience one.
But if the…
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Is Neil Barton's algebraic/ontological distinction equivalent to the actualist/possibilist distinction?
In, "Multiversism and Concepts of Set: How much
relativism is acceptable?" Neil Barton distinguishes between an ontological interpretation of set-theoretic multiverses as referents and an algebraic interpretation that is very much like, or is just a…
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What is the response to this criticism of the fine-tuning argument?
So the fine tuning argument has been used to argue for theism, or the multiverse. The argument as I understand it goes something like this:
We live in a universe with life.
The physical constants of the universe if even slightly different would…
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Computer vs brain in many-worlds interpretation of QM
Assume that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true.
A classical computer that is modeled on the Turing machine is designed to perform exactly the same computation in each of the branching worlds.
But the brain is likely to have…
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Did physicist Eugene Wigner think that every mathematical structure existed as an isolated universe?
I have read that Eugene Paul Wigner thought that all mathematical structures had physical existence.
Does that mean that he believed in a multiverse containing all mathematical structures as separate universes?
And if yes, did he consider all types…
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Occam's razor and the Multiverse Hypotesis
Occam's razor or the principle of ontological parsimony, tells us that,
placed before two hypotheses, we should always consider the simpler of the two to be correct. Obviously this is not a universal law but has proved to be correct in a myriad of…
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Does Tegmark's hypothesis include dynamical mathematical structures?
Tegmark's hypothesis is the idea that mathematical structures are physical and thus have physical existence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis)
Zuse's thesis says that the universe is fundamentally analogous to a…
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What do multiverse hypotheses say about why our multiverse has its particular attributes?
In discussions around multiverse hypotheses, what is the extent and current state of conversation around why the multiverse configuration (whether one or many multiverses, etc.) is one which generates/includes universes such as ours?
That is to say,…
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In a multiverse is it more likely that a universe is created by an intelligent being rather than chance?
An “intelligent being who creates universes” seems possible rather than impossible to me. Assuming a multiverse, such an intelligent being actually exists somewhere.
Taking this further, an “intelligent being who creates universes which contain…
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If Something Exists Does Everything Exist?
Has anyone argued this? I haven't formulated a coherent argument so I'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone has thought about this already. Intuitively I think it makes sense that everything must exist, that reality is an infinite…
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