Chaos and Control
Control: This universe we are creating will be exquisitely designed and fine-tuned for the existence of life. Chaos: I don’t agree with this plan. I think it should be chaotic and subject to the random process of probability. The laws themselves should be chaotic and selected by the same process. Control: Why? We are the designers and should make it to our specifications. Why leave anything to chance? Chaos: Because we want any intelligent beings that we create to have free will Control: We will give them the illusion of free will so they won’t know they don’t have it Chaos: But why foster an illusion? Isn’t it better for them to actually have it? Control: No, because they may use it for evil and destroy themselves Chaos: If that is their choice, so be it Control: What if we compromise? We start the universe in a highly ordered state, then through a law called entropy, we let it become more disordered over time Chaos: Fine, but if it becomes more disor