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lavalamp comments on The Apparent Reality of Physics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lavalamp 24 September 2011 01:50:06AM 2 points [-]

I think I have thought of, not a disproof, but evidence against what you're suggesting.

For every regular mathematical system, there exist infinitely many slight non-regular alterations of the system, implying that, if you are correct, there are infinitely more non-regular universes than regular universes. Under the principle that there's nothing special about our location in space/time/etc, we ought to find ourselves living in a "typical" universe, that is, a non-regular one. Yet, our universe appears to be highly regular.

Maybe you can argue that most such universes have very small irregularities...