[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

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Mike Lorrey:

> Exactly: The Simulation Argument.
> This is our hook for implanting
> transhumanist philosophy in the population.

Robert M. Wald [1][2], in his recent paper "The Arrow 
of Time and the Initial Conditions of the Universe" [3], 
reminds us that the state of the very early universe 
was one of very low entropy. At the end of the paper 
he suggests that he lacks an answer, exactly like Boltzmann
many and many decades ago, as to why this is the case. 
But he is also suggesting not to look at dynamics 
(i.e. inflation) and philosophy (i.e. anthropic principles) 
for a solution of this Boltzmann's 'paradox' (early universe 
full of randomness ... at global low entropy state).
Now, assuming there *is* a time arrow, did *somebody* 
inject some information, or some negative entropy, 
at the very beginning? Or do *we*, here and now, create 
our present state, our future state, and even our past
cosmological state, in this smoky and, supposed, 
'participatory' universe :-)? 
s. 

[1] Wald, R. M., 'General Relativity', 
University of Chicago Press, 1984. 
[2] Wald, R. M., 'Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory 
of the Big Bang and Black Holes', University of Chicago 
Press, 1977.
[3] http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0507094