Fiddlesticks! I Was Wrong About The Fine-Tuning Argument
For my sins, I recently argued that fine-tuning is evidence that immaterial souls are metaphysically impossible (and thereby evidence against theism, if God is an immaterial soul).
Thanks to a wine-fuelled conversation with Miles K. Donahue, I now think I was wrong, but in an interesting way.
In the original blog post, the dialectic was only halfway unravelled. In this one, I will unspool the dialectic until the tortured thread runs out. The upshot will be that I now think the universe was fine-tuned for beauty, not life, and that fine-tuning is empirical evidence for aesthetic realism.
This is a big day for me. I now outright believe—I think?—that aesthetic values are objective, whereas previously I was on the fence. In celebration of this change of tune, I enclose an objectively beautiful photograph of the present author below the Paywall of Awol, after which I will take you through the argument with wrinkle of winsome wit and a warehouse of Wolleny wisdom.
