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Viliam comments on The map of ideas how the Universe appeared from nothing - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 11 September 2016 08:46:12PM 0 points [-]

such set may be very small

Still infinite probably.

But I like the idea how you consider whether the laws themselves allow creation of a new universe. So, it seems like the Tegmark mathematical universe provides "templates" for universes, but only a subset of these "templates" will actually create a working instance.