Rob,
"The state 'No Life, Ever', is not impossible (sic), a priori. No countable infinity of coin flips will produce an elephant. An infinite number of trials cannot produce that which is not possible."
This is called the 'argument from design' fallacy. It does not apply to the Albrecht hypothesis, if indeed it applies to anything at all.
"The observation, to be explained, is this: The *a posteriori* probability of intelligent life existing is known to equal 1. I think, therefore I am."
And this is known as the 'Descartes dualism fallacy', easily refuted. Again, no relation to the Albrecht result.
"The single universe theory, which attempts to explain the above observation, is this: A single universe, modeled via random, independent statistics, is highly unlikely to produce intelligent life , it must be 'fine tuned' to accomplish this, and that is highly improbable, given the initial conditions."
Once again, a strawman, off topic argument.
"Consequently, that theory utterly disagrees with the observations - it is a total failure. The multiverse hypothesis was an attempt to avert this total failure."
No it wasn't. One must understand that the Everett many worlds hypothesis from which the multiverse derives, is an explanation of quantum mechanical experimental results.
"But, as explained above, it also is a total failure, in this regard."
Which is known as the 'fallacy of false dichotomy.' The failure of your strawman does not imply failure of the many worlds hypothesis, which in fact is a quite successful interpretation of quantum phenomena.
"The problem does not lie with the number of universes required to explain the observation. The problem lies with the assumption that all those universes function entirely via random, independent processes."
Then you are obligated to show that a Bernoulli trial is not random and not independent of all other Bernoulli trials. Good luck.
"Regarding - 'the issue is whether we can use the multiverse hypothesis to calculate a singular initial condition of our own universe.' No hypothesis can do that. As I described previously, no entity has enough memory, to record all the observations that would be required in order for such a hypothesis to be modeled, in enough detail, to compute the initial conditions."
Which is known as the fallacy of 'argument from ignorance.'
Rob, I'm disappointed that you started off with serious interest in this topic and reverted to long refuted fallacious assertions.
Tom
