The minimal explanation for what is going on still requires that something must hold the state of the universe and execute its transition function. This prime mover, the basic Turing machine ticking away in the void is a debt that freaks me out.
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What about fine-tuning arguments? Do you think they will be resolved once we find a much simpler underlying discrete structure?
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yes. it is possible that a large superset of the observable dynamics exist, and the specific constraints we observe are anthropic
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Fine, but one could go further: One can conceive of many universes that are different from ours (Game of Life). Why does only our universe exist rather than a different one or multiple different ones?
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