>There's a famous Carl Sagan quote: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” which hints at the problem: Nothing is c

>There's a famous Carl Sagan quote: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” which hints at the problem: Nothing is created in a vacuum. See also the story of Trurl's Electropoet (from the Cyberiad). Trurl first had to simulate a universe to get the poet to work.