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Comment author: Pentashagon 20 December 2012 12:37:52AM 0 points [-]

Meditation 1: The person has always existed. When do we come into existence from a perspective outside of our universe? Either we exist in spacetime or we don't; there's no "when" outside the universe. Meditation 2: Yes.

It's just Tegmark's Level IV multiverse. The only evidence I know for holding such a position is the greater complexity of a theory that only allows our particular universe to exist to the exclusion of all others. If we find a succinct and perfect Theory of Everything that is shorter than a description of the Tegmark Level IV multiverse there would no longer be any evidence to support it, in my opinion.