It’s not arbitrary in the sense of random. It’s arbitrary in the sense of not following obvious apriori principles.
Agreed. The human brain is the output of a long, optimising process known as evolution.
Simple, comprehensible order of the kind you detect and admire in the physical unverse at large is easier to do than designing a brain. No one can build an AGI, but physicists build models of physical systems all the time.
Yes. Simple, comprehensible order is one of the easiest things to design; as you say, physicists do it all the time. But a lot of systems that are explicitly not designed (for example, the stock market) are very chaotic and extremely hard to model accurately.
Why is positing unobserved Matrix Lords better than positing unobserved randomness or unobserved failed universes?
Those options would also explain the observations that I am basing my argument on. I don’t have any argument for why any one of those options is at all better than any other one.
Agreed. The human brain is the output of a long, optimising process known as evolution.
Yes. Simple, comprehensible order is one of the easiest things to design; as you say, physicists do it all the time. But a lot of systems that are explicitly not designed (for example, the stock market) are very chaotic and extremely hard to model accurately.
I still don’t see why you would think order of a kind comprehensible to humans in the universe is evidence it was designed by a much smarter entity.
I’m trying to use it as evidence that it was designed at all.
Would it’s being designed by a Matrix Lord of non-superhuman intelligence help your case?
It would certainly explain the observations that I am using as evidence.
Why is positing unobserved Matrix Lords better than positing unobserved randomness or unobserved failed universes?
Those options would also explain the observations that I am basing my argument on. I don’t have any argument for why any one of those options is at all better than any other one.
The zero-one-infinity rule might help you out.
So, you’re suggesting there should be either zero, one, or a potentially infinite number of Matrix Lords, and never (say) exactly three?