Michael Levin
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But all of these are mathematical structures that explain and determine the
facts about the physical world, right?
If you ask physicists, hey, why, you know, this many of this type of particle?
Because this mathematical thing has these symmetries.
That's why.
This is very controversial, right?
And there are, of course, physicists and mathematicians who disagree with what I'm saying for sure.
But what I'm leaning on is simply this.
I don't know of anything you can do in the physical world.
You're around at the Big Bang.
You get to set all the constants.
Set physics however you want.
Can you change E?
Can you change Feigenbaum's constant?
I don't think you can.
So physicists do this.
They'll say, okay, you know, if we made the ratio between the, you know, the gravitation and the electromagnetic force different, would we have matter?
How many dimensions would we have?
Would there be inflation?
Would there be this or that, right?