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Tautological Many Worlds?
this is my first question here so I hope I'm following the guidelines correctly. I recently found a relatively obscure physicist/philosopher who asserts that the concept of Many Worlds is ...
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Could something prevent us from ever existing?
There are several ideas regarding the creation of our universe that suggest that our universe emerged from another one (eternal inflation suggesting our universe is the byproduct of an inflationary ...
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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 ...
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Does quantum immortality mean solipsism?
If when we die another universe is created in which we live, then would the people of that universe be real?( by that i mean conscious beings like myself) or am I misunderstanding QI?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Could everything exist? What would this even mean?
I saw something that said the reason the universe exists is that everything exists, in an infinite multiverse. This then answers why the laws of physics of our universe are the way they are, which is ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Does free will contradict the theory of infinite universes
Let's imagine that we live in a world with infinite universes. One of these universes is the same as the one we live in, except for one change: this morning I choose to cut off my leg for some reason, ...
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The supposed "knockdown argument" for Simulation Theory -- what did I miss? (IF we can create simulations indistinguishable from reality...)
I have never read any extensive formulation of the argument; I've only listened to people (like Elon) lay it out in Youtube videos; so I don't know what it's called or how to lay it out with rigour; ...
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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 ...
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Forcing and justification
In "The set-theoretic multiverse," Hamkins talks about forcing giving us "glimpses" of other set-theoretic universes. He states his position as a Platonistic one, i.e. these "...
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"Where" does the counterpart relation subsist?
AFAIK, according to the counterpart theory, it is true of me that I could have lived a different life, if my counterpart in another possible world did live a different life. But where is it true that ...
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Does the forcing phenomenon prove some sort of set-theoretic multiverse?
It seems that, "A can be forced to equal B," allows, "A is possibly equal to B." In possible-worlds lingo, this gets us, "There is a possible world where A = B." Since ...
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Does an Eternal Multiverse Undermine Causality, Time and Free Will? [closed]
An eternal multiverse is a static multiverse that just exists and is presented as a series of static moments, and each moment is separated by proper time (in the relativistic sense) and has many ways ...
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Why are some things considered "impossible" even in other universes?
For example, I often hear that life could not develop in a universe where the fundamental constants were even slightly changed, or where certain physical laws were different. But if we're dealing with ...
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Is the science community reluctant to consider the evidence to support some sort of higher intelligence? [closed]
Scientists can explain how life has developed to the stage we are at today, but they can’t explain why the process of evolution exists or what the spark was that brought life about at all. We are ...
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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 ...
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Are there universes where rules of mathematics do not follow?
According to Max Tegmark the ultimate reality is the Mathematical world. Mathematically possibility also refers to physical possibility. Can there be such a type of universe where mathematical ...
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Mathematical universe hypothesis: Why shouldn't all imaginable universes exist?
In his paper on mathematical universe hypothesis, Max Tegmark only responses with a single paragraph to this assumption:
The MUH and the Level IV multiverse idea does certainly not imply that all ...
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If other versions of us existed on alternate worlds, would we be morally responsible for the actions of these alternate versions of us? [closed]
Hypothetically, if the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics were correct, meaning an infinite number of alternate versions of each of us, containing our respective memories and experiences, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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://...
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Did Carnap propose some kind of Modal Realism?
I have read in several pages that Rudolf Carnap, just as David Lewis (The creator of Modal Realism philosophical hypothesis) proposed that every logical proposition exists as a universe
But is this ...
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Are Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and Seth Lloyd's Cosmological Model compatible?
I have been interested in Seth Lloyd's cosmological model (which proposes that the universe is a some kind of quantum computer or at least similar to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Is it there any direct relation between Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and the Holographic Principle?
I would like to ask you about Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and its relation to the holographic principle: Could we use the holographic principle as a framework to Tegmark's MUH?
I mean, ...
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Multiverse and the anthropic principle?
In this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211048) by physicist Andrei Linde, the multiverse concept, the anthropic principle, quantum cosmology and inflationary cosmology are discussed.
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Is it there any model of the universe (considered by physicists) which would be the product of a simulation?
There are various philosophical theories that propose that the universe is the product of a simulation. But I was looking for theories that propose this and are also considered by physicists (not only ...
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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 ...
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Is there any physics-model version of Tegmark's hypothesis?
Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis is very interesting (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis) but it has virtually no support among physicists because it is too ...
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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 ...
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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/...
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In a multiverse is it more likely that a universe is created by an intelligent being rather than chance? [closed]
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 “...
