eloheim,
You understand me I think. My original post and the youngness paradox is very similar but according to the other guys in this thread it's flawed reasoning.
But if the youngess paradox is valid after all, then I don't think your scenario helps E.I. at all. You just have to consider that...
dm4b,
Boltzmann brains is not offtopic, my thoughts about ultraquick evolution is similar (my argument failed though). I think we need to be aware that there are a lot that needs to be explained. A cosmological theory that explains physics is not enough, it also needs to be in line with...
Chalnoth,
Yeah, we really need probabilistic predictions but one of the arguments in this thread was that we can't use that on an infinite set.
My initial argument was maybe flawed but in theory there must be a prediction how the typical evolution of life in the multiverse looks like. Do you agree?
Steinhardt makes a good point:
Now you should be disturbed. What does it mean to say that inflation makes certain predictions—that, for example, the universe is uniform or has scale-invariant fluctuations—if anything that can happen will happen an infinite number of times? And if the theory...
Chalnoth,
I guess a naive form a presentism looks stupid but I'm under the impression that the question of time is very open.
Since I don't believe in actual infinites in the real world I also can't believe in eternalism.
Mitchell porter,
I think if we are dealing with infinite sets I guess you're right it's hard to do the calculations (I didn't try :redface:).
However, personally I don't grasp the concept of actual infinites in the real world. Am I supposed to believe in that? Eternal inflation has a...
Chalnoth,
You have no reason to be certain that this line of reasoning doesn't work, but you are right that I didn't define the problem very well.
Anyway, now I read Guths paper, it's a great one, and realize that this problem is very much about the youngness paradox. Guth believe that his...
Chalnoth,
I think you missed my argument, I'm afraid I didn't explain it very well.
Let's say we have a theory that says that one box is filled with blue color, and 99 boxes are filled with red color.
Another theory says that 99 boxes are filled with blue color and one box is filled with red...
I've read that.
Eternal inflation predicts that almost all conscious creatures live on planets with close to maximal evolution speed. That would mean that our Earth is extremely atypical, it doesn't make sense.
Almost all planets in a multiverse with eternal inflation will be much younger than our earth.
Almost all conscious creatures in such a multiverse will live on young planets with an exceptionally quick evolution (related to the theoretical expected evolution speed).
But we live on an old...
When they talk about the classical view I think they refer to earlier theories of the photosynthesis (Maybe http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/symposium/papers/schulten.pdf" ). Then they didn't know about this wave-like state that keeps its coherence for a very long time.
The scientists say that the most effective path is "chosen", whatever that means. But if there are more than one possible path then there should be some randomness involved and the most effective one shouldn't be "chosen" all the time.
But alright I guess I need to study more but this is...