/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9231014
>Why are there laws/rules of nature/physics that the universe must abide to?
Because everything in our observable universe came from the same initial big bang event and because only certain sorts of universes can be stable enough to eventually produce organisms like yourself who are capable of asking that question.
A universe that isn't at least somewhat deterministic / predictable probably wouldn't be able to produce complex organisms because complex organisms depend on the environment being predictable in order to survive and propagate. And even long before organisms are a consideration universes that are not at least somewhat deterministic / predictable would probably only exist for a very short period of time since it actually requires some stability / determinism for something to continue existing after beginning to exist.
You could imagine there's some super-context beyond our scope of observation where all possible universes emerge from and that many of those emerging universes are in fact chaotic / random, but most of those emerging universes would only persist for a brief instant. Therefore determinism / stability and laws of physics would be selected for by virtue of being qualities that allow for a universe to persist.

>>9160737
>who could you be but yourself
t. hasn't experienced ego death yet
The right answer is thinking "I'm me" or "I'm not me" are both wrongheaded because the self concept itself never mapped to an actual thing of substance in physical reality. It's just a story, m8.

>>9154599
It really only appears like a problem if you choose to conceptualize an arrow of time pointing from past to future, so just stop doing that.

>>8553648

I want to non-ironically thank you anon. I have the urge to post similar things whenever this topic comes up, and it's nice to not have to because similarly correct autists are willing to fight the battle for me. Subjectivists are the worst. I wish subjectivists would stop using all the neat technology built for them by virtue of everything they believe in being wrong.

Assuming we are in fact living in a simulated universe, what would be a best way to prove to the alien creators / observers that we're worth elevating from the simulation into the real world? I think we'll need to invent something useful they haven't already thought of.