Meditation 1: The person has always existed. When do we come into existence from a perspective outside of our universe? Either we exist in spacetime or we don’t; there’s no “when” outside the universe.
Meditation 2: Yes.
It’s just Tegmark’s Level IV multiverse. The only evidence I know for holding such a position is the greater complexity of a theory that only allows our particular universe to exist to the exclusion of all others. If we find a succinct and perfect Theory of Everything that is shorter than a description of the Tegmark Level IV multiverse there would no longer be any evidence to support it, in my opinion.
Meditation 1: The person has always existed. When do we come into existence from a perspective outside of our universe? Either we exist in spacetime or we don’t; there’s no “when” outside the universe. Meditation 2: Yes.
It’s just Tegmark’s Level IV multiverse. The only evidence I know for holding such a position is the greater complexity of a theory that only allows our particular universe to exist to the exclusion of all others. If we find a succinct and perfect Theory of Everything that is shorter than a description of the Tegmark Level IV multiverse there would no longer be any evidence to support it, in my opinion.