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The point is that there are multiple universes, according to the quantum mechanics interpretation I subscribe to. So all of your options are true: 0, 1 and many
by gpsx 12y ago
The point is that there are multiple universes, according to the quantum mechanics interpretation I subscribe to. So all of your options are true: 0, 1 and many. My position, which is admittedly no better than a guess, is that most universes by a far majority have 0. By virtue of me writing this, among other things, we live in a universe with at least 1. Again, my position would be that it is unlikely we have more than 1 in our universe.
What you are saying it true under the assumption there is a single universe.
- darkmighty 12y agoI think you're trying to articulate is the Anthropic principle [1]. It basically states that the probability that "some" life exists is 1. I'm not sure what the name of this next one is, but I believe it's a widely defended scientific principle that we're "typical" in some sense. This principle gets hard to justify cosmologically (it reduces to Occam's Razor locally), but it makes sense to me. It rejects very clearly some quirks like the Bolztmann Brain [2] argument. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain