Natural Teleology: More Thomas Nagel (The limitations of science)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, February 04, 2013, 20:26 (4308 days ago) @ David Turell

Lee Smolin has a new book coming out, expanding on his "Life of the Cosmos". This is a sort of preview:-http://io9.com/5981472/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-universe-here-is-one-possible-answer-I sort of find this type of theory attractive, though I would prefer one that showed the existing laws of nature were the result of mathematical necessity, since that would be far more conclusive. Even a theory of endless evolution of universes must presumably have a beginning somewhere? Unless of course it goes round in endless cycles as Roger Penrose imagines!-I've never understood this creationist claim that 'information' cannot increase except by intervention of a creative mind. It seems to me this is exactly what evolution does; build up more complex structures which must therefore contsin more information - or certainly require more information to describe how they work.

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GPJ