From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 04:45:56 MST
arnaldo <arnaldo@apex.net> writes:
> There is DNA, which i
> will call DNA1 to explain the creation and assembling of life, so why
> there isn't a DNA2 to explain the creation and assembling of the
> Universe or Universes out there?
I would call that "physical law". DNA isn't a blueprint, it is more
like a recipe ("If there is more than 4.3 nanomolar of protein 346367,
produce protein 34671, 233211 and 2675"), and development unfolds
according to local selforganizing processes. The universe unfolds
according to the local application of physical law ("The
electromagnetic field at point x will change to the following
depending on the electromagnetic field at the surrounding points:
<Maxwell's equations>").
Lee Smolin and Linde has proposed the possibility of evolution of
universes. Some aspects of physical laws may depend on spontaneous
symmetry breaking, so if our universe can produce other universes (for
example by formation of baby universes in black hole singularities)
then these would have other "DNA2". And if their laws still remain
somewhat similar to ours, then it is not unreasonable to think that
there is an evolution process selecting for ability to create child
universes.
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