Comment by morpheos137

Fundamentally physics is what logic permits. You can't falsify ontology from the inside. Kind of like proving a negative. These evolutionary universe theories take analogy too literally. You can not have selection outside of time. What you can have and what our lawful, conservation abiding physics suggests is a natural (mathematical) fixed point outside of which alternatives are zero measure. Liebniz was right this is in a sense the best of possible worlds. It is funny to me people have no problem accepting mathematical constants as natural (e.g. e, or pi) but assume that natural constants are not actually mathematical equilibria but instead selected contingencies. What in the world would be doing the selection? This is god of the gaps applied to science: we can't accept there is nothing more to reality than persistence of non contradiction so we reach for mystery or brute facts. Meanwhile in another area stuff like the mandelbrot set or even the distribution of primes show that great complexity can arise from simple rules or constraints This may not be falsifiable, as no view from no where is attainable but it is logical and parsiminous. What can persist across scales (renormalization) is physics is math is the world.