Selecting Life

Lee Smolin’s LQG theory regarding the origins of the universe, favours the selection and evolution of larger universes over time. Larger universes are more likely to generate life and more likely to enable life to develop to its full potential. Smaller universes would spawn fewer suns, fewer supernovas and therefore fewer black holes *from which new universes might emerge. Also smaller universes would create fewer heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen, from which the complex molecules of life are created.

The Anthropic principle gains an extra dimension of significance also through a combination of Smolin’s theory and D-Net; because it can be inferred that a universe with the laws and constants such as ours is required for life to kick start as an efficient information processor and progress on its inevitable path towards higher intelligence.
The Anthropic principle in all its manifestations now has a broader significance. Not only must those parts of the universe in which life currently exists conform to the set of boundary conditions that produce elements capable of being linked in complex molecular forms to form the first cells or templates of life; but the life that emerges must also exist as a category of efficient information processor, in order to survive.
Further, the fact that life currently exists in our cosmos, evolving towards greater complexity, which in D-Net is based on a decision-based selection process, means that life has been selected as the most efficient information processing engine by the environment of the universe, which according to the new LQG model may itself be a *causal web of quantum processes and information. The selection process will then inevitably lead to the emergence of more efficient information processors or a subset of systems which can evolve by processing information as well as energy. This is of *central significance because it indicates that life and consciousness is critical to the survival of the universe and allows the emergence of a super-intelligent entity- Omega. Within this context the significance of the final observer or ultimate Omega becomes apparent. Its knowledge and wisdom will encompasses and be co-existent *with the entire universe- part of the causal evolutionary web of existence.

In addition, the primeval mythological notion of a god can be more precisely defined; as a communal intelligence pervading the universe - an infinitely complex network of networks and system of systems connecting all life, with each node an evolutionary information processor; but inseparable from the whole; an emergent and continuously unfolding phenomena leveraging to higher and higher levels of wisdom and sentience- a quantum god defined in a Hilbert decision space.

Frank Tipler in his marvellous ground breaking book, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, also postulates that life could survive forever. Within a particular closed universe configuration, observers or intelligent life forms would be able to send an infinite number of light rays back and forth between themselves, so generating an infinite amount of information. But there may be a corollary. Such a scenario also may extend the life of the universe as well as life, if the two are co-existent. In other words, if life can process an infinite amount of information it can extend the life of universe as observed by life, to infinity.

Therefore in order to guarantee its own survival, the multiverse or universal cosmic environment, will select those physical forces, states and universal laws most likely to generate efficient information processors viz- life as we know it.