Could Other Universes Fine-Tune Their Own Inhabitants?

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The discussion explores the possibility that other universes could fine-tune their own inhabitants similarly to how our universe has fine-tuned life. It argues that while life-bearing universes may be rare, many could exist, potentially developing their own forms of life. The key requirements for such life include a source of free energy, a mechanism to sequester that energy for increased order, and the ability to reproduce. These concepts are likened to food, metabolism, and reproduction in our universe. Ultimately, the conversation suggests that while many universes may be lifeless, a significant number could support some form of life or prelife.
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Fine-tune their own inhabitants?, just like our universe fine-tuned us? I agree that life-bearing universes would be unlikely but there still should be ALOT of them

I mean most people say any change in the laws, even a tweak would make life impossible but they forget that "state" they orginially thought impossible to breed life in could fine-tune its own inhabitants?...of course there would be the "extreme" universes that would dissappear in a second or be dead the whole time it existed
 
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What you need would be
1. A source of free energy, that is energy with a lower entropy than its surroundings.
2. Some way to sequester that free energy into a sufficiently local neighborhood that it could be tapped to support realtively increased order, relative to the surroundings; that is apart of its low entropy state could be transferred and expressed differently by the "organism" as we might call the sequestering neighborhood.
3. Some way for such a neighborhood to create new neighborhoods with the same ability to tap free energy where found.

That, I believe is it. If not life, such an organism would at least be prelife, and it's power to reproduce would eventually produce evoution.

Property 1 is known as "food", 2. is known as "metabolism", and 3. is known as "reproduction". Notice that I didn't say chemistry or physics or anything beyond the definetion of free energy.
 
Yeah, and if there were other universes there should be a lot of universes having those three requirements but the "dead" ones would still surely outnumber them.
 
Surely there would be a lot that do have life in them...
 
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