Gods' Logic Game
Stephen Wolfram has an intuition, shared by many that our complex universe is defined by a set of very simple rules. He is looking for this set of rules, telling us that is is now almost embarrassing not to look for these rules.
One of my theories for the universe is that there could be a game going on between "gods" or creators. The rules are the following:
- Each creator defines a set of universe-generating rules
- Start all universes at the same time
- Watch each universe evolve
- The creators have no right to tweak things, they can only watch, i.e. the are not allowed to perform miracles
- The first universe that generates a creature capable of understanding its universe foundation rules wins.
Once a universe self-understands itself, the understanding creatures can play the game.
Based on this idea there would be multiple universes out there but all of these universes would share one thing: logic. Logic is the only thing that is shared by all universes.
This type of universe can answer all spiritual questions:
Why does suffering exist? Because what we consider 'bad' things, such as death, are necessary - i.e. for evolution to happen.
Why miracles don't exist? because it would be cheating. A creator that does not need to perform miracles is much more clever than a creator that needs miracles to tweak a badly created universe.
Please, challenge me, ask me a question that cannot be answered by this theory.