Posthuman Blues

Here's a short, provocative teaser for a new (?) book by theoretical physicist Bernard Haisch:



I think it's perfectly conceivable that we inhabit a "mutiverse" filled with what the video's narrator terms "worthless" universes. A multiverse may actually be quantum inevitability.

And I disagree that living in a multiverse and living in a universe "tuned" for the emergence of consciousness are mutually exclusive; if we accept the existence of some sort of formative intelligence (which Haisch -- unwisely, in my opinion -- chooses to identify with the "G"-word), who's to say a myriad universes, some without potential for life and intelligence, aren't part of the plan? Maybe it's impossible to spawn even one "self-aware" universe unless quantum fluctuations are allowed to generate many billions of universes -- perhaps even all possible universes, in which case we aren't privileged to inhabit the only universe with the existential ingredients for life, consciousness and intelligence. After all, in this scenario our Cosmos rubs shoulders with all manner of "bizarro worlds," some home to beings only faintly divorced from ourselves.

(Thanks to PAG E-News.)