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> I would tend to say that unless it is logically necessary for the universe to be what it is Well that's what he's asking and what I was asking with the 3D qu
by guerrilla 5y ago
> I would tend to say that unless it is logically necessary for the universe to be what it is
Well that's what he's asking and what I was asking with the 3D question: is it logically necessary? Maybe it is. It seems like it could be in the case of 3D.
- breuleux 5y agoThat seems extremely unlikely to me. There are 1D and 2D cellular automata that are Turing complete and could arguably support life if they were scaled wide enough. Any virtual reality you can simulate on a computer could have been a physical reality. There isn't any requirement for it to have a spatial topology, there isn't any requirement for it to support life or any kind of complexity. Reality could have been a sprawling Mandelbrot fractal. Why not?