PHILOS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mathematical Beauty
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Fine-tuning seems surprising and calls out for explanation. Suppose you had a machine that takes raw materials. Imagine this machine has di erent as input and outputs some other processed product. settings (there are three or four dials on it) each dial has a million possible settings. What settings we establish a ects how the machine works. It so happens that one particular setting yields a very interesting output (mud concious human beings/iphones). If we change the setting even a little bit, although it still processes the material, it outputs something boring. Proponents of ne-tuning think that this is what is going on with our universe. The anthropic answer: if the conditions had not been right for life, we would not be around to ask the question. Possible explanations of life: the god hypothesis. [god exists and chose to create a world withinitial conditions that would lead to life existing: the many worlds hypothesis.
