Checking referred chapter in Stanislaw's book[0], Stanislaw (well, to be accurate his stand-in, Acheropoulos) says that the current universe was the result of a

Checking referred chapter in Stanislaw's book[0], Stanislaw (well, to be accurate his stand-in, Acheropoulos) says that the current universe was the result of a "game" between protocivilizations each having their own space with its physical laws. Actually L. Smolin has been a proponent an even more similar idea, referred to as cosmological natural selection[1], first presented in Smolin's book "The life of the cosmos"[2] published in 1992, with the argument that the universe evolved analogous to biology natural selection driven (rather civilizations) by black hole collapses. [0]: https://archive.org/details/perfectvacuum00lems/ https://archive.org/details/perfectvacuum00lems/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection [2]: https://archive.org/details/lifeofcosmos00smol/ https://archive.org/details/lifeofcosmos00smol/ Edit: fix link order