GENESIS OF THE PYTHAGOREAN UNIVERSE

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The idea of a mathematical multiverse was put forward by Max Tegmark as a hypothetical answer to the question of why the physical laws and initial conditions of the visible universe are exactly the same and not different. The hypothesis postulates the existence of an infinite number of universes with all possible laws; “what exists mathematically exists physically.” Supplemented by a tautological weak anthropic principle - only those universes are observed where observers are physically possible - this hypothesis of Maxivers was proposed as an explanation of the anthropicity of the laws and initial conditions of our universe, structurally and finely tuned to life and thinking. In the proposed work, Tegmark's hypothesis is refuted on the basis of the Pythagoreanism of our universe - the simplicity, scale and high accuracy of physical laws, as they are already known to us. This simplicity, the mathematical elegance of the laws requires a separate principle at the metaphysical level, rooted in some higher totality that no longer contains any specifics, nothing contingent. Tegmark's hypothesis offers almost nothing as such a totality, metaphysical chaos; it is the hypothesis of chaosogenesis. The alternative totality to chaos is the absolute mind, the mind as such. Consequently, the refutation of the Maxivers hypothesis leads to the conclusion that the very special laws of the visible universe are set by a higher mind.

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A. V Burov

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физик и философ из лаборатории Ферми в Чикаго (США).

L. A Burov

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специалист в области информационных технологий (Чикаго, США).

I. A Rybakova

RUDN University

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кандидат философских наук, старший преподаватель кафедры иностранных языков факультета гуманитарных и социальных наук

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