![]() ![]() These simulations become more and more realistic, and their energetic efficiency grows due to progress in computer hardware and software. The rapid development of technology has allowed computer simulations to become routinely used in an increasing number of fields of science. Here, parallels between the black hole-generated baby universes where random variations in the fundamental physical constants are introduced, and the Darwinian method of incremental accumulation of variations through mutation and natural selection will be explored. The final section of the study will try to look at the mechanism of natural selection that is often hypothesized to be operating in both microcosm and macrocosm. The various fundamental constants that underlie our most trusted theories appear fine-tuned in the sense that if even a very tiny variation is traduced in them, life as we know it, most probably will never emerge in such a qualitatively different universe. ![]() This part of the study will also try to see if the prerequisite conditions for the existence of complex life in our universe are a result of the special values of the parameters themselves or there is something else at play. The second part of the study shall look at the similarities between the fine-tuned nature of the biological world and the fundamental laws that govern the cosmos to see whether there is really a coincidence between life's requirements and the universe's choices of parameter values. The opening section deals with the strange structural and morphological similarities between the peculiar architecture of the neuronal network and the gigantic cosmic web with its several interconnecting filaments of clustered galaxies. The present article seeks to study three striking similarities between the microcosmic world of the living systems and the grand, cosmic landscape. Keywords: far future, future of science, ALife, simulation, realization, cosmology, heat death, fine-tuning, physical eschatology, cosmological natural selection, cosmological artificial selection, artificial cosmogenesis, selfish biocosm hypothesis, meduso-anthropic principle, developmental singularity hypothesis, role of intelligent life. The reader is invited to consult Annex 1 for an overview of the logical structure of this paper. This last direction is argued with a careful speculative philosophical approach, emphasizing the imperative to find a solution to the heat death problem in cosmology. Or, if this simulation could be realized, this would lead to an artificial cosmogenesis. Some authors argued that we could be in a simulation run by an intelligent entity. Assuming that intelligent life could indeed simulate an entire universe, this leads to two tentative hypotheses. The status of an entire universe simulation is discussed distinguishing between real-world and artificial-world modelling. ![]() The simulation would allow to probe what would happen if we would "replay the tape of the universe". The simulation should encompass not only biological evolution, but also physical evolution (a level below) and cultural evolution (a level above). This requires to tackle the challenge of simulating open-ended evolution at all levels in a single simulation. We argue that it will result in a simulation of an entire universe. This philosophical paper tackles the question of the future of simulations in science from a cosmic viewpoint. ![]()
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