fine tuning of the universe and combinatorial game

FINE TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE AND COMBINATORIAL (PERFECT
INFORMATION) GAME
by Eric CAPRON

Bibliography:
Eric CAPRON, Anthropic principle or ludic principle, PDF Archive

We postulate the following scenario: the Universe is an artificial intelligence which
progresses by playing against itself. This is a combinatorial game, i.e. a perfect information
game.

One such game is played with a six-sided die: each player has to build up a toy animal from
separate body parts: body, head, ears, paws and tail. According to the die result (e.g. 6 for
the body, 4 for each paw, 1 for each ear or the tail, etc.), the player successively adds the
parts until the toy animal is completed.
The winner is the first player to complete their animal.
Since it’s always playing the game against itself, the artificial intelligence is always the
winner.

If we liken the Universe to a self-playing artificial intelligence, it wins when it builds up an
object, for example a human being, able to understand it was fabricated by a game.
We may replace the ‘laws of physics’ by ‘rules of the game’, and the ‘anthropic principle’ by
the ‘ludic principle’.
Once more we receive a narcissistic wound: we have been built up by a game.

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