From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 20:35:56 MST
There's this thing I call the "lost flashlight
syndrome." To wit: eventually you will always put
your flashlight in the one place you will never think
to look. This is a general epistemological principle.
A civilization evolves past all possible outside
threats until at last it stumbles across its nemesis.
Some civilizations get a lot further down that road
than others. Sometimes they leave things behind... s
H u D d E r
Or, perhaps the evolutionary selection for fractal
universes is at play here. If there's a
space/time/energy economy in the metaverse, which I
would think to be inevitable, then universes which
erupt spontaneously will be rare indeed, as opposed to
those which are designed to best facilitate some life
form's purposes. The inherent factors in a particular
universe's design that make it likely to spawn new
fractal universes may be quite undesireable, if merely
for economy's sake.
Allowing random fractal universes to sprout off when
you have total control over the process, is sort of
like growing a whole lot of trees in the hopes that
some of them will look like houses. Much better to
start off looking for stuff to make houses out of from
the start.
Our universe, however, does not generally give the
appearance of something a real-estate development
consortium cooked up. Quite the contrary. So, it's
likely either an accident or part of the entropic cost
of imposing more order somewhere else in the
metaverse. Lucky us.
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