Hey everyone, I've been noodling on this idea and wanted to share: What if our universe isn’t just a random accident but the result of a kind of cosmic "deep learning" process?
Imagine the universe as a huge simulation running over and over, tweaking its own parameters—like the mix of elements or the strength of gravity—until it gets things just right for life to emerge. Think about how our modern neural networks work: they adjust millions of parameters over many iterations until they perform perfectly. Now, picture the cosmos doing something similar over billions of years.
In this theory, every star, planet, and even the evolution of life is like a step in a massive computation. Each cosmic "epoch" fine-tunes the conditions, and only the versions of the universe that work out (like having the perfect mix of oxygen in the atmosphere) stick around.
It’s a pretty out-there way to look at things, mixing ideas from evolution, physics, and modern tech. But if this iterative process really is happening, it might explain why the universe seems so perfectly set up for life. What do you think—could our cosmos be one giant experiment in cosmic optimization?
The characters theorized that when each little black hole was getting pinched off into its own isolated new universe, it carried a variation of the physical laws of the one it came from... And that maybe all the cosmically-sudden intelligent life was because spacefaring intelligence was how our type of universe reproduced.
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