Without any thinking involved I would guess that the only thing that could be running is information. Info in the form of photons and electrons and the patterns we detect, if any? As Jason Resch pointed out months ago, a lot of info necessarily is hidden from us, physically. How? Jason noted that it simply is not in our light cone, in the Minkowski sense of things. A photon emitted from the far side of the sun cannot be observed from earth telescopes. Now, if you were to sign an enormously large check for an interplanetary space based solar telescope that observed solar phenomena from it's special perspective, and then sent the data forward to earth, then it would be in our light cone. This was Everett's big thing, the Observer. It was also Bryce DeWitt & Wheelers big thing.
Mayhaps, if the cosmos or multiverse has a purpose, it is to be a species that is an observer, and then create and launch multiple mechanical observers to detect things? Like the good Von Newmann machines they are, they will make more in order to better observe. To induce outcomes in this universe or to cause logical split offs. For my world view Shrodinger's Cat is not a potential victim in a ghastly experiment, but an active participant, for the cat observes sitting in the lap of Wigner's Friend. On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 John Clark <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I kind of side with Canadian philosopher John Leslie, as well as British > astronomer, James Jeans on this question. Both Leslie and Jeans see the > cosmos as a Great Thought. I formalize their conjectures as a Great Program. > One may ask, running on what? There's only one thing it could be running on, the laws of physics. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1RmwztO04e3ZhnkRtAN%3DVJLC2TZ1xDo41H8Rpmhhdrtg%40mail.gmail.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1231466223.40588.1615429889816%40mail.yahoo.com.
