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I guess if you would want to put it in terms of religion the closest its gets is indeed blend of the two, concretely apophatic theology and Advaita Vedanta.Interesting. I'm smelling some Platonism there. Your view could be explained as some Judeo- Christian and Buddhist blend, no? There is a beginning, but the universe is eternal in cycles. God seems to be doing some sort of unnecessary work here. Unless previous cycles are somehow preparing next cycles for life in some strange way. Of there is no God in this concept we have a strange beginning for a self organizing universe. Universe dies in cyclical models before it starts to expand again. This is a crazy sounding chain, cosmos kinda rearranges itself, after dying. It's problematic without epic magic.
We don't really know much about black holes, at least not too much. They might not exist. If they do exist, which is not a bad assumption, they are very epic anomalies. They of course got to be a consequence of something, but saying our universe is fine tuned for them and everything in our universe is not taking anything away from the fact that the universe seems to be fine tuned. Maybe even fine tuned for life. Life is still a miracle and needs obviously some magic to exist, this is a tricky question, how life rose up. But laws of physics are at least making it possible for us not to fall apart to pieces.
Life is a byproduct of what? Cosmic craziness? At minimum it's a byproduct of extremely epic universe. At minimum. Let our universe be harsh in most places or not.
Life is a miracle of some sort. Everything points to this. The fact that even an elegant universe is mostly empty of life is something worth noting. All that enormous space universe has is needed to have life.
What do you mean by "Maybe there are universes where life as a percentage to all mass and energy is much much higher and we live in a shitty one"? What maybe there are some universes full of life? You need so many things to have life, perfectly balanced things. A planet of right size and right distance from the sun, working laws of physics, universe expanding at the right speed. Advanced life on earth in our solar system is a miracle too big to say that we live in a shitty universe. Now some might say that maybe there is a universe in some other dimension popping out off quantum soup which is full of smart aliens but it's all pure fantasy and i'm not even sure if that scenario would be a good definition of a better universe. Maybe is always maybe. But reality is reality. And in reality we needed a miracle and our elegant universe to get life here. However, using our imagination is something that paved the way for any development. http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd...iverse-of-1686
If they are set to zero they are non existent for us. Do we need to think about them? Same goes for other universes, many multiverse theories assume that different universes are not really connected as some realms. Some argue tho that there are dimensions and everything is connected and already exists in different variants. Hugh Everett was close to this type of thinking. He thought all the magic we see in quantum world is possible because all realms are connected and the wave function never collapses. A very brave take on quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III Nonetheless, let there be zillions of other universes, they don't explain our universe which is perfect enough for life to exist. We don't know how life rose up, but we know it's possible for advanced life to exist in our solar system. If we try to explain our existence and our universe with other universes and abstract ideas of the multiverse, then we need to explain the mechanism behind the multiverse.
Anyway if this is your take on things/ you see this type of scenario the most probably to explain our existence it would be worth thinking what kind of mechanism drives this whole multiverse and what is the ultimate source of it. It must be quite fine tuned to work in order to produce everything or anything really. If it produces some more epic and some less epic variants at the same time as it produces our universe- it's still producing fine tuned variants and can be considered as fine tuned. It's just a bit random type of creation and is quite a perverted view on things. It will make things very strange for both sides- scientific puritans and Abrahamic theists. The whole saga will remind of some Hindu cyclical stuff or Kabbalistic creation. Or actually it will be even worse than that since it will produce many non working variants too. Again multiverse is a strange place for science to be in- anyone can bring any ideas if this is the case. There might be eternal creation Andrei Linde likes to talk about with different laws of physics or there might be same stuff what we have here. A lot of same stuff what we have is what they start with because it's the most logical start. So even with multiverses it's preferable to start with something we have here and know more about. Now they might say "listen, just because we can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist". But we can answer that "just because we can think that something can exist beyond our eyes and sometimes beyond our imagination doesn't mean it's logical to assume it exists or can exist". All of this talk goes back to the fact that we don't know if anything rather than this universe can exist. Yet this universe has to be explained and the most probable explanation lies beyond this universe and beyond the whole concept of Big Bang, which depicts only first steps of creation. So the ultimate truth is beyond our scientific possibilities, very possibly will always be. But that doesn't mean there are no good explanations for things. There seems to be some sort of creation which makes it very tough for modern Buddhists at least, since they put their trust in secular eternity and infinity.
Life is cellular automaton like Conway described it, starting with Garden of Eden initial configuration. Its only as crazy as other theories.
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