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Re:A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told ... by enkid on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:17AM (#35218628)
There would have to be an underlying mechanism that determines which laws out compete the others. The "environment" upon which the rest must adapt. Ultimately, you'd still have "laws," itd just be a layer up, as far as I can tell.
Re:A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told ... by truculent on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:00AM (#35218983)
That’s where the anthropic principle comes in; the configurations of laws which lead to the emergence of observers (in our case, humans), are the ones which get observed. We simply cannot see the “failing” configurations, because we didn’t exist in those branches!