While Evolution belies the claim that Earth was designed for life, the notion that the Universe was designed for Life has resurfaced, inspired by a misplaced understanding of cosmology.
I read in books and heard in podcast debates so much about fine tuning that I thought I may have been too obtuse to understand all the fuss about it. You have made it very clear: "The point is that the universe isn’t fine-tuned for life. Rather, life on earth arose because it could. Just as in the case of biological evolution, life is fine-tuned for the universe, rather than the other way around." Thank you.
Hi Dr Krauss. I’ve read that John Wheeler once asked the question ”Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?” is it possible that the universe could not really exist if we were not here to observe and measure it? Thank you for this fascinating excerpt. Best of luck with your new book.
Can we view our human institutions as living organisms whose prime directive is to grow and multiply and the world economy as a growing ecology of interacting institutions? Our institutions from government agencies and religions to private businesses behave like ecologies with each institution making decisions in it own self-interest.
Thank you. Well written, clear, reasonable, and logical. It'll never catch on.
I read in books and heard in podcast debates so much about fine tuning that I thought I may have been too obtuse to understand all the fuss about it. You have made it very clear: "The point is that the universe isn’t fine-tuned for life. Rather, life on earth arose because it could. Just as in the case of biological evolution, life is fine-tuned for the universe, rather than the other way around." Thank you.
Hi Dr Krauss. I’ve read that John Wheeler once asked the question ”Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?” is it possible that the universe could not really exist if we were not here to observe and measure it? Thank you for this fascinating excerpt. Best of luck with your new book.
Can we view our human institutions as living organisms whose prime directive is to grow and multiply and the world economy as a growing ecology of interacting institutions? Our institutions from government agencies and religions to private businesses behave like ecologies with each institution making decisions in it own self-interest.