On 5/20/2020 6:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Hi Jason,
When you say that Reality is infinite, are you alluding to the
(phenomenological) physical reality? Or the absolute reality?
With mechanism, it is very plausible that the physical reality is
infinite, as it is a sort of broder of the universal mind (the mind of
the “virgin” universal machine).
But even with an infinite physical reality, it is unclear if we are
alone or not, in the physical reality. We are numerous in the
arithmetical reality (which can be taken as the absolute one, modulo a
change of universal machinery). But to have alien fellows in the
physical reality, you need some homogeneity in that reality, which is
not obvious at first sight.
In fact, I get the impression that we might be rare, if not alone. The
probability for life might be as close to zero as von Neumann thought,
but even the possibility of its evolution requires many conditions, so
many that we might be alone in the cosmos (not in the multiverse, as
there we have even doppelangers).
I think the evidence suggests that there is a lot of life in the visible
universe and even a lot of technological civilizations...but they are so
sparse that we are effectively alone.
Brent
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