JW
Uniformitarianism
I have been smacked round the ear 'ole by the implications of uniformitarianism. Up until less than five years ago, already in my 60s, I was blithely ignorantly going with God triunely boogying for eternity and then creating the universe.
The substantive argument against God manifesting once in all infinite, eternal creation as a bloke, whilst the rest of infinity from eternity experiences nowt, not so much as a by your leave, is that it’s an infinitely complex anomaly in terms of uniformitarian Kolmogorov complexity, just as a multiverse is simpler than a single idiosyncratic universe:
An entire ensemble is often much simpler than one of its members. This principle can be stated more formally using the notion of algorithmic information content. The algorithmic information content in a number is, roughly speaking, the length of the shortest computer program that will produce that number as output. For example, consider the set of all integers . Which is simpler, the whole set or just one number? Naively, you might think that a single number is simpler, but the entire set can be generated by quite a trivial computer program, whereas a single number can be hugely long. Therefore, the whole set is actually simpler… (Similarly), the higher-level multiverses are simpler. Going from our universe to the Level I multiverse eliminates the need to specify initial conditions , upgrading to Level II eliminates the need to specify physical constants , and the Level IV multiverse eliminates the need to specify anything at all… A common feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most elegant theory involves parallel universes by default. To deny the existence of those universes, one needs to complicate the theory by adding experimentally unsupported processes and ad hoc postulates: finite space , wave function collapse and ontological asymmetry. Our judgment therefore comes down to which we find more wasteful and inelegant: many worlds or many words. Perhaps we will gradually get used to the weird ways of our cosmos and find its strangeness to be part of its charm.
— Max Tegmark
As below, so above. And the above in the below.
That wedded to the dawning realization that reality wants for nothing. I was beguiled by William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument but the current Planck tock of universal indeterminate relativity was caused by the previous tick. And always has been, back through the Big Bang, cosmic inflation and the initial perturbation in the cosmic foamer; bubble blower.
Something has always made universes. 11 dimensional 25 transcendental fundamental physical constant universes. It is infinitely powerful and ordered. Is it purposeful?
It’s most postmodern to say that eternity is just a story and we have no idea. That’s just denial.
We have to stare in to the ultimately vertiginously worse pit than Nietzsche’s.
Beyond, surrounding its infinite depths, panenthesistic God stares back (because Jesus as testified by the early Church).
He’s a tad bigger than a single, anomalous, finite universe kinda guy.
The Economic Trinity - God as we know Him by His relationships, including with us.
… later!
