... I wouldnt say, per se, that I am comfortable with the multiverse. — Multiverse

"Once you take seriously that all possible universes can (or do) exist then a slippery slope opens up before you. It has long been recognised that technical civilisations, only a little more advanced than ourselves, will have the capability to simulate universes in which self-conscious entities can emerge and communicate with one another. ...if we live in a simulated reality we should expect occasional sudden glitches, small drifts in the supposed constants and laws of Nature over time, and a dawning realisation that the flaws of Nature are as important as the laws of Nature for our understanding of true reality."

"Anaximander gave up the idea that water or any other known substance might be the first principle, and held that this is of the nature of the infinite, that is, matter without any determinate property except that of being infinite. All things are developed out of this and return to it again, so that an infinite series of worlds have been generated and have in turn become again resolved into the abstract mass."

"A challenge for string theorists is to determine how many possible low energy worlds might be predicted by the theory. ...some estimates put the total at more than 10500. ...an abstract multidimensional "landscape of possibilities." ...If our universe is part of a multiverse, the balance of probability shifts dramatically in favor of simulation. Its a matter of basic statistics. ...The simulated beings stand in the same relation to the simulating system as human beings stand in relation to the God (or gods) of traditional religion. ...Since the multiverse argument is often invoked as a way to abolish the need for divine providence, it is ironic that it provides the best scientific argument for the existence of god! Clearly, if a multiverse exists, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that at least some universes containing observers are the products of designer-creator gods."

"That what is outside is infinite, leads people to suppose that body also is infinite, and that there is an infinite number of worlds. Why should there be body in one part of the void rather than in another? Grant only that mass is anywhere and it follows that it must be everywhere. Also, if void and place are infinite, there must be infinite body too, for in the case of eternal things what may be must be."

"And again, who will be frightened by the objections of the stoics, when they ask how will a single Fate and a single Providence stand, or how will there not be several Jupiters and several Joves, if there be a plurality of worlds? In the first place, then, if the notion of there being several Jupiters and Joves be absurd, surely those ideas of their own are much more absurd: for suns, and moons, and Apollos, and Dianas, and Neptunes they suppose in infinite numbers in their infinite revolutions of worlds. Secondly, what absolute necessity is there for there being several Jupiters, if there be a ‘plurality of worlds; and not one Ruler and Director of the Whole to each—a God possessing Reason and Intelligence, in the same way as He that is with us, entitled Lord and Father of all?’"

"Desperation has led to a "dangerous" idea: perhaps we live in an anthropically selected universe. According to this view, we live in a multiverse ...it is not scientifically verifiable. ...it leads inevitably to a depressing end to science. ...it is far too early to be so desperate. This is a dangerous idea that I am simply unwilling to contemplate."