{"title":"Why Our Universe Is Comprehensible","authors":"J. Hartle","doi":"10.1142/9789811216404_0014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Einstein wrote memorably that `The eternally incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility.' This paper argues that the universe must be comprehensible at some level for information gathering and utilizing subsystems such as human observers to evolve and function.","PeriodicalId":416124,"journal":{"name":"The Quantum Universe","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Quantum Universe","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811216404_0014","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Einstein wrote memorably that `The eternally incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility.' This paper argues that the universe must be comprehensible at some level for information gathering and utilizing subsystems such as human observers to evolve and function.