I appreciate this post (and the discussion in the comments). It helped me think through some ideas about whether selection processes could emerge in hypothetical universes whose fundamental physics is fully or mostly random (i.e where the laws of physics, particle locations, etc are changing at random from moment to moment). I’m thinking it’s possible in the latter case so long as instants remain dependent on other instants in some way, even if that way itself randomly changes.
I also suspect that in principle, such a universe could seem non-random when looking at the larger-scale phenomena (e.g a sun seeming to rise every day), and that (if there were something like evolution) it could still be advantageous for life forms to have inductive intuitions.
(Not implying our universe is like this, just exploring possibilityspace)
I appreciate this post (and the discussion in the comments). It helped me think through some ideas about whether selection processes could emerge in hypothetical universes whose fundamental physics is fully or mostly random (i.e where the laws of physics, particle locations, etc are changing at random from moment to moment). I’m thinking it’s possible in the latter case so long as instants remain dependent on other instants in some way, even if that way itself randomly changes.
I also suspect that in principle, such a universe could seem non-random when looking at the larger-scale phenomena (e.g a sun seeming to rise every day), and that (if there were something like evolution) it could still be advantageous for life forms to have inductive intuitions.
(Not implying our universe is like this, just exploring possibilityspace)
But you do live in a universe that is partly random! The universe of perceptions of a non omniscient being