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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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For a universe to be?
Does "for a universe to be" mean "for a universe to exist"?
Context:
Other physicists (Martin Rees himself would be an example)
find this unsatisfying, and I think I agree with them. It is indeed
perfectly plausible that there is only one way for a universe to be.
But why did that one way have to be such a set-up for our eventual
evolution? Why did it have to be the kind of universe which seems
almost as if, in the words of the theoretical physicist Freeman
Dyson, it 'must have known we were coming'? The philosopher
John Leslie uses the analogy of a man sentenced to death by firing
squad. It is just possible that all ten men of the firing squad will
miss their victim. With hindsight, the survivor who finds himself in
a position to reflect upon his luck can cheerfully say, 'Well,
Context:
Other physicists (Martin Rees himself would be an example)
find this unsatisfying, and I think I agree with them. It is indeed
perfectly plausible that there is only one way for a universe to be.
But why did that one way have to be such a set-up for our eventual
evolution? Why did it have to be the kind of universe which seems
almost as if, in the words of the theoretical physicist Freeman
Dyson, it 'must have known we were coming'? The philosopher
John Leslie uses the analogy of a man sentenced to death by firing
squad. It is just possible that all ten men of the firing squad will
miss their victim. With hindsight, the survivor who finds himself in
a position to reflect upon his luck can cheerfully say, 'Well,
Top answer
Yes, Consider Hamlet's question about suicide, To be or not to be.
- Yes, Consider Hamlet's question about suicide, To be or not to be.
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