Information Complication (General)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 21, 2015, 15:49 (3291 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: 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.
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> DAVID: Hard to imagine this is the only time it happened.-> 
> dhw: Agreed, given eternity, but that hardly proves that every single solar system in the whole history of the universe has been finely tuned to allow for life. -I was referring to the past universes. In this universe our solar system may well be the only one with life.-> DAVID: But you just introduced an infinity of possibilities.
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> dhw: Wrong reference. The choice was between mindless chance, and “a sourceless intelligence, either ‘divine' or integral to energy and matter”.-And the information that runs the universe and life can arise by chance? No choice to me.