(December 2, 2014 at 11:50 am)Heywood Wrote: We can make many different completely coherent mathematical models of the universe where the rules are different. There is no reason to believe the rules of the universe could be different. In fact in order to believe the rules of this universe are some brute fact of nature and absolutely had to be this way......one has to invent a means which require our specific rules to be a brute fact of nature.
I see no reason to invent things simply to justify a world view that our universe is the way it is because it simply could be no other way. This brute fact explanation is one of the ones I have rejected. Its certainly possible...but there is no reason to believe it is true other than it is possible.
I'm not inventing anything, it's called observation! No matter how fun or interesting the inquiry may be, arbitrarily assigning unobserved values to physical constants for the sake of seeing how the mathematical models used to describe our current understanding of the universe react is still just making shit up. The merits of god and the multiverse here are being built on an edifice of shit; one is the ancient placeholder for ignorance at the edge of our understanding and the other is teetering on the edge of pseudoscience.
