Information Complication (General)

by dhw, Friday, November 20, 2015, 21:10 (3073 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: It exists and acts without intelligence. Multiply this example a zillion times, and you have a universe doing the same.-DAVID: Can't let this pass. This universe exists as a precisely organized construct which evolved finely tuned to allow life.-The universe obviously allows life on this planet in this solar system. I don't know how you can tell that all the other solar systems that have come and gone over the last 13,800,000,000 years - not to mention the eternity that may have preceded the Big Bang (if it ever happened) - were also finely tuned to allow for the one and only life we know, which is ours.-dhw: In the context of billions of existing solar systems and a possible eternity and an infinite number of no longer existing solar systems, the orderliness of our own life-giving solar system might just as well be the product of mindless chance as of a sourceless intelligence, either “divine” or integral to energy and matter.-DAVID: A good agnostic appeal to infinities! Nice refuge.-A refuge from what? There is no default position here. “Just as well”...denotes equal degrees of improbability.