Oh, this is terrific. He's using Cosmological Natural Selection with Intelligence (CNS-I) as a literal plot engine! You can thank one of the other commenters on this thread, James Smart, in part for that. He and the philosopher Clément Vidal, the mathematician Louis Crane, the cosmologist Edward Harrison, and a couple of others came up w…
Oh, this is terrific. He's using Cosmological Natural Selection with Intelligence (CNS-I) as a literal plot engine! You can thank one of the other commenters on this thread, James Smart, in part for that. He and the philosopher Clément Vidal, the mathematician Louis Crane, the cosmologist Edward Harrison, and a couple of others came up with and developed the idea of intelligent life as a driver of the reproductive success of universes (by making artificial black holes). There's a good history of it here (scroll down to the section headed "CNS with Intelligence (CNS-I)"):
Oh, this is terrific. He's using Cosmological Natural Selection with Intelligence (CNS-I) as a literal plot engine! You can thank one of the other commenters on this thread, James Smart, in part for that. He and the philosopher Clément Vidal, the mathematician Louis Crane, the cosmologist Edward Harrison, and a couple of others came up with and developed the idea of intelligent life as a driver of the reproductive success of universes (by making artificial black holes). There's a good history of it here (scroll down to the section headed "CNS with Intelligence (CNS-I)"):
https://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection_(fecund_universes)