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The full-blown multiverse hypothesis, chaosogenesis, is refuted on the grounds of simplicity, the large scale and high precision of the already discovered laws of nature. A selection principle is required not only to explain the possibility of life and consciousness, but also theoretizability of our universe. The anthropic principle provides the former, but not the latter. As chaosogenesis is shown to be the only thinkable scientific answer to the question of why the laws of nature are the way they are, its refutation means that this question cannot be answered scientifically.
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Burov, A., Burov, L. (2016). Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) Trick or Truth?. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27495-9_14
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