Computation As Fine Tuning

  • David Deutsch argues that the possibility of computation is not a given. It is not a feature of every universe, but only of special ones.
    • Computation is the ability to do every transformation possible within the universe, within a smaller subset of the universe
    • Put differently, computation is the ability to run simulations of anything within the universe, or the universe itself
  • This self-simulating capability is "rare" among possible universes
  • This self-simulating capability is important. Human minds depend upon it.
  • This suggests it as a candidate for a Fine-Tuning Argument

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David Deutsch

- David Deutsch argues that the possibility of computation is not a given. It is not a feature of every universe, but only of special ones. - Computation…

Fine-Tuning Argument

…possible universes - This self-simulating capability is important. Human minds depend upon it. - This suggests it as a candidate for a Fine-Tuning Argument -