I just love this post and that Ramsey's Theorem. Really.
For I see, there is not a lot of life in the Universe already. A little different tunning could give us more life or less life. Even if there was no stars and planets under a different cosmological constant. We just don't know, we are unable to say 'everything would be dead'. Maybe, maybe not.
So, this FTA is another example of a bad argumentation.
We just don't know, we are unable to say 'everything would be dead'. Maybe, maybe not.
I distrust 'we don't know' style arguments. A Bayesian should always have a guess, and all too often 'we don't know' is just a way to hide an a priori implausible hypothesis behind a wall of unobtainable evidence.
True, we can't examine all possible laws of physics, but we can look at simpler examples and get a good prior from those.
Conway's game of life is a good example, it is an interesting universe which allows for self replicating patterns. You could take the funda...
I had posted a while back on my proposed dissolution of the Fine Tuning argument. My main argument was as follows:
I've been pondering how to process that response, and if the argument is salvageable, ever since. Do we really have to explain anthropics and the multiverse to diffuse the FTA?
Today I came across a great article with an elegant description of Ramsey's Theorem:
As I understand it, positing few 'interesting' vs. the vast majority of 'uninteresting' universes is in direct contradiction with Ramsey's theorem. I put this to the more mathematically educated among this community for feedback. Beyond pushing forward this particular internal dialog of mine, it should have more general application in the fine tuning debate, should someone choose to use it there.