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Visual Metaphor are the ramblings of an engineering student up in University of Waterloo, Canada. My favorite rants are about philosophy, morality, religion, technology, society and culture with the occassional psychedelic poetry

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

bias

Why does the universe have biases?

Assuming what we observe in our reality can be labelled as a 'bias', how does the universe start off with these biases. What i am essentially talking about is physical properties. But I am not asking why the universe has properties (which is just a circular question), but why and how did it filter the possibilities of any property. Properties like space, time and within them: attraction/repulsion, constants of nature (pi, speed of light), ideal shapes, what constitutes as the most efficient solution, energy/matter convservation, chaos/randomness, design (fractals, spirals), matter over antimatter, energy changing to matter, organization..

what is the motivation driving change? why are certain universal properties "selected" over another alternative.

essentially, this could be summed up in an analogous question: why does a random fluctuation give a certain value over another?

its like asking..why did the universe turn out the way it did? when it could have easily been something else. what causes the primal bias? are the intial conditions of the 'creation' the reason or..as i learnt while studying differential equations today..that the intial conditions only have an effect for a certain period of time (transient state) and after that the function continues regardless of the intial inputs (steady state) and thus the reason lies elsewhere, in the original differential equation of the universe? (....my nerd rating just skyrocketed)

I realize there are many flaws, assumptions and stupidities in my statements above, but try to feel my words rather than understanding them (which is impossible cause I ramble so much).

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