Physics – Popular Physics
Scientific paper
2009-10-29
Physics
Popular Physics
27 pages. Draft - critical comments welcome!
Scientific paper
Why did the big bang occur, why do the laws and constants of nature as well as the boundary conditions seem so fine-tuned for life, what is the role of intelligence and self-consciousness in the universe, and how can it escape cosmic doomsday? The hypothesis of Cosmological Artificial Selection (CAS) connects those questions and suggests a far-reaching answer: Our universe might be understood in terms of vast computer simulations and could even have been created and transcended by one. - This essay critically discusses some of the premises and implications of CAS and related problems both with the proposal itself and its possible physical realization: Is our universe really fine-tuned, does CAS deserve to be considered as a convincing explanation, and which other options are available to understand the physical laws, constants and boundary conditions? Is life incidental, and does CAS revalue it? And is intelligence and self-consciousness ultimately doomed, or might CAS rescue it? Keywords: origin of the universe, big bang, fine-tuning, laws of nature, physical constants, initial conditions, intelligent life, cosmological natural selection, cosmological artificial selection, artificial cosmogenesis, deism, natural theology, far future of the universe, physical eschatology
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