RE: Anthropic Principle vs Goddidit
April 23, 2014 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2014 at 1:27 pm by Heywood.)
(April 23, 2014 at 12:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 23, 2014 at 10:54 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: ...Multiverse theories seem like a blank check that throws our specific universe into an anything goes mix of bizzare possibilities. In a Multiverse you can justify any assumption.
Parsimony is about the number of assumptions, not the number of things. All the universes follow from one single assumption, and there's evidence that the assumption may be correct.
A theory that explains anything explains nothing.
(April 23, 2014 at 11:16 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: Given enough universes with indeterminate outcomes, something like your laptop would eventually show up somewhere.
How do you know this to be true? How do you know in the subset of universes sans intellect....my laptop would eventually show up?