In another thread Pickup_shonuff makes this interesting point.
The fact that there are no known mathematical models of an intellect that thinks the Universe into being does not bother me. The reason it doesn't bother me is that I know such models exist...but they haven't been discovered yet.
Imagine a stick man. Now imagine that stickman doing jumping jacks. You've just thought an imaginary stickman doing jumping jacks into being. In principle, a mathematical model of your brain can be constructed. That mathematical model of your brain could then be modified so that it describes a more capable brain....say a brain that can imagine the world of Skyrim in all its detail with all it characters going about their business including that guard who constantly complains about his knee. But why stop there? Couldn't that mathematical model be modified further still to be even more capable? I don't see why it couldn't. I don't see why a mathematical model couldn't in principle be constructed that describes a brain which could simulate our universe in every detail. I don't see why a mathematical model couldn't in principle be constructed that describe a brain which could simulate a universe much more complex than ours.
(April 5, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Many "simple and elegant" mathematical models of our current Universe are highly suggestive of a multiverse.
No mathematical models suggest a giant mother brain that thinks the Universe into being.
The fact that there are no known mathematical models of an intellect that thinks the Universe into being does not bother me. The reason it doesn't bother me is that I know such models exist...but they haven't been discovered yet.
Imagine a stick man. Now imagine that stickman doing jumping jacks. You've just thought an imaginary stickman doing jumping jacks into being. In principle, a mathematical model of your brain can be constructed. That mathematical model of your brain could then be modified so that it describes a more capable brain....say a brain that can imagine the world of Skyrim in all its detail with all it characters going about their business including that guard who constantly complains about his knee. But why stop there? Couldn't that mathematical model be modified further still to be even more capable? I don't see why it couldn't. I don't see why a mathematical model couldn't in principle be constructed that describes a brain which could simulate our universe in every detail. I don't see why a mathematical model couldn't in principle be constructed that describe a brain which could simulate a universe much more complex than ours.
