Why does the universe exist?

[Steve Johnson <***>]

I was reading this article on John Wheeler's thoughts
as to why anything at all exists and I became curious
about what RR's thoughts and speculations were on this
subject. 

http://home.pacbell.net/claydale/wheelerdisc.htm

I guess this is mostly a question for Judith. One
thing I  find not very satisfying about physicists'
speculations on this subject is that they inevitably
start talking about quantum froth, the cloud of
quantum possibility, curled dimensions that masqurade
as particles etc. 

I don't want to make light of these answers but they
just move the philosophical conundrum one step up the
ladder of infinite regress. We try to explain the
Universe and we answer that it exists because of
quantum froth or big bang or curled dimensions or what
not so we have to explain that and so on.. 

It reminded me a lot of RR's writings about the need
of stopping infinite regress in control and error
detection problems, his analysis of Newtonian paradigm
etc. So I was curious if he had any philosophical
speculation on this subject.

- Steve





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