Cirkovic, Milan M. and Dimitrijevic, Jelena (2016) Putting the cart before the horse: co-evolution of the universe and observers as an explanatory hypothesis. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The answer to the fine-tuning problem of the universe has been traditionally sought in terms of either design or multiverse. In philosophy circles, this is sometimes expanded by adding the option of explanatory nihilism – the claim that there is no explanation for statements of that high level of generality: fine-tunings are brute facts. In this paper, we consider the fourth option which, at least in principle, is available to us: co-evolution of the universe and obsevers. Although conceptual roots of this approach could be found already in ancient stoicism, it is still the least investigated explanatory option for resolving the problem of empirical fine tunings. We offer two preliminary models along which the co-evolution hypothesis could be developed further. They are still on the level of speculative metaphysics, but there are opportunities along the way to generate predictions which are in principle testable, especially in the domain of large-scale numerical simulations.
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| Additional Information: | Foundations of Science, accepted for publication | |||||||||
| Keywords: | philosophy of cosmology – fine tuning – anthropic principles – practical metaphysics – numerical simulations – philosophy of biology – endosymbiosis – closed timelike curves – causation | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Milan Cirkovic | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2017 15:50 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2017 15:50 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 12803 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | December 2016 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12803 |
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