Monday, August 27, 2018

A more plausible creationism*

I am reading Zeeya Merali’s book A Big Bang in a Little Room (Basic Books, 2017). These are some relevant thoughts.

 The purpose/goal of life is to expand and fill as much space and time as possible. It would be desirable then for intelligences to trigger new big bangs creating new universes suitable for life. If it’s possible to control the sorts of universe you create then this process would tend to increase that fraction of the multiverse that is inhabitable. Each creator would have an interest in the wellbeing of the lives found in its new universes just like human conservationists show concern for global wildlife.

Many creators would be finite entities. If any infinite entities exist in the multiverse even for them there will be things they can not do. There are, after all, different levels of infinity.

* I think that there is good evidence to believe that the various human religions are all built upon lies.
See, for example, Kurtz, The Transcendental Temptation, Prometheus, 1986, part 2.

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