论文标题
宇宙的可能性标准
Likelihood criteria for the universe
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论文摘要
科学技术的发展逐渐证明了人类理解和操纵物理世界的能力,并且还显示了对物理事件可预测性的一些根本局限性。这种认识使许多思想家想知道为什么宇宙具有观察到的规律性水平。这一事实的理由倾向于将我们的宇宙作为某些可能性的可能选择。在这项工作中,对此类理由的可能性标准进行了评估。此外,描述了四个替代宇宙,它们似乎比我们自己的更可能更有可能,具体取决于所考虑的可能性标准。
The development of science and technology has progressively demonstrated the ability of humankind to understand and manipulate the physical world, and it has also shown some fundamental limitations to predictability of physical events. This realization has led many thinkers to wonder why the universe has the observed level of regularity. Justifications of this fact tend to present our universe as a likely option among some range of possibilities. In this work, an assessment of the likelihood criteria employed for such justifications is carried out. Furthermore, four alternative universes are described that appear to be more likely than our own, depending on the likelihood criterion that is considered.