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Nice post. I have two questions though (granted I am not familiar with philosophy or science). The first one is: why does the universe have finitely many states? I think current models state there are finitely many types of particles, but what about the distances, speeds etc? I think there is the notion of a plank distance (which would be a "pixel"). But even then, why is the space "unbounded". When talking about space, I think we mostly refer to the matter itself, to how it is positioned. But couldn't the room in which is stays be infinite? Thus, by simply having particles stay further and further apart from each other there could be infinitely many states. Another problem is the question of equilibrium. I think current models (and in particular entropy) do claim that inside a universe, things tend towards a stable state. But why should that apply to universes themselves? What if previous universes can influence future ones, what if they leave some kind of artifact? If universe N depends on N-1, N-2, ... towards negative infinity, then its "signature" could actually be infinite and thus there would be infinitely many states