RE: Why physical laws

From: Higgo James <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:47:14 +0100

George is spot on. SSA does not apply when you try to include uninhabitable
enviornments among your sample set. In fact, I believe that 'laws'
themselves are merely those relationships which must hold in order for us to
survive. So it is only an infinitescimal realm of reality which exhibits
structure-friendly 'laws'. And even these 'laws' do not hold from one
Planck-time to the next: in most worlds we disintegrate spontaneously. Of
course, WAP, we only experience those in which we do not.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GSLevy.domain.name.hidden [SMTP:GSLevy.domain.name.hidden.com]
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> Subject: Fwd: Why physical laws
>
> In a message dated 99-06-05 08:27:11 EDT, dude.domain.name.hidden writes:
>
> << The answer is that the structure(s)
> we are in obey physical laws, not because they were cast by
> fiat from some omnipotent being, but simply because the structures
> that do obey physical laws are more numerous than those that do
> not, and hence we are likely to find ourselves in those. >>
>
> To paraphrase Einstein, and in keeping with the MWI, when God threw the
> dice,
> all faces came up. Not just a dice with six faces but one with an
> infinity.
> This is brute force creation to say the least, requiring no "creative
> ingenuity" in the human sense. You assume that "the structures that obey
> physical laws are more numerous than those that do not, and hence we are
> more
> likely to find ourselves in those."
> The problem with this reasonning is that it is self sampling. We can find
> ourselves ONLY in those structures that obey physical laws because these
> are
> the ONLY structures that can support us as rational beings (SAS). The
> assumption that worlds with (rational) physical laws are more more
> numerous
> than those without is therefore unwarranted. In fact I would believe in
> the
> opposite. That the worlds without rational physical laws, (if these could
> be
> called worlds at all), are more numerous than those with rational physical
>
> laws. << Message: Why physical laws >>
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 00:44:55 PDT