Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence?
Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence?
Author(s): Ward BlondéSubject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: afterlife; maximal multiverse hypothesis; cosmological natural selection; anthropic principle;theory of everything;Occam’s razor;metaphysics; big bang;parallel universe; spacetime dimensionality;
Summary/Abstract: Since modern physicists made more and more advances in precisely measuring the fundamental constants in nature, cosmologists have been confronted with this problem: how do we declare that nature’s constants are fine-tuned for the emergence of life? Many cosmologists assume nowadays that the big bang universe originates from a multiverse that consists of very many universes. Some of these must be fine-tuned for life. A fascinating question arises: Would there be any chance of a life after our death in this multiverse?In this paper, I show two things about the multiverse. First, universes in the multiverse acquire an unlimited amount of additional fine-tuning for intelligent life over the course of many universe generations. Such additional fine-tuning may consist of travelling between universes and an afterlife on a distant planet. Second, evolutionary conservation in the evolution of universes in the multiverse provides a declaration why we observe a universe that roughly has the minimal fine-tuning to support intelligent life.
Journal: Philosophy and Cosmology
- Issue Year: 17/2016
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 26-38
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English