You should have read Vic Stenger's "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning". Vic
points out how many examples of fine tuning are
mis-conceived...including Hoyle's prediction of an excited state of
carbon. Vic also points out the fallacy of just considering one
parameter when the parameter space is high dimensional.
But my general criticism of fine-tuning is two-fold. First, the concept
is not well defined. There is no apriori probability distribution over
possible values. If the possible values are infinite, then any realized
value is improbable. Fine tuning is all in the intuition. Charts are
drawn showing little "we are here" zones to prove the fine tuning. But
the scales are sometimes linear, sometimes logarithmic. And why those
parameters and not the square?...or the square root? Bayesian inference
is not invariant under change of parameters.
Second, calling it "fine-tuning" implies some kind of process of
"tuning" or "selection". But that's gratuitous. Absent supernatural
miracles, we must find ourselves in a universe in which we are
nomologically possible. And that is true whether there is one universe
or infinitely many. So it cannot be evidence one way or the other for
the number of universes.
Brent
On 10/14/2020 7:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I just finished an article on all the science behind fine-tuning, and
how the evidence suggests an infinite, and possibly complete reality.
I thought others on this list might appreciate it:
https://alwaysasking.com/was-the-universe-made-for-life/
I welcome any discussion, feedback, or corrections.
Jason
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