Theory plus is a great book, by the way. I agree with David chalmer about a lot of things, though i disagre wit he about a many other things also. But this argument that multi verse has to fine tuned, i just don't think is, is right. The whole idea of a multi verse is there's some simple generating principle that creates all sorts of different universes. And so no necessary fine tuning is involved. It's like the ineturs. You know, i don't need to invent an infinite number of numbers. I need to invent a single number zero and a single operation that adds one,. ok? And then, boom, i have an
Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.
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